Association for the Study of Literature and Environment Tenth Biennial Conference

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Association for the Study of Literature and Environment

Tenth Biennial Conference

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Welcome to Lawrence! On behalf of the University of Kansas, greetings to all of the attendees of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment Tenth Biennial Conference. Hosting this event has particular significance for us because of the university's long-standing commitments to scholarship on environmental issues in the humanities and sciences, and sustainable practices in our institution- al and personal lives. We are a year and a half into the implementation of a campus-wide strategic initiative "Sustaining the Planet, Powering the World," which will build on KU's strengths in climate change studies, interdisciplinary environmental studies, and alternative energy and transportation science. Our Center for Sustainability actively promotes sustainable practices in operations, education, research, and campus life, and our well-established Environmental Studies program fosters active and engaged interdisciplinary scholarly dialogue. I'm delighted to be able to support our faculty and students in hosting one of the major conferences in the environmental humanities, and to welcome you to the University of Kansas and Lawrence Jeffrey Vitter, Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost

Thank You! Many thanks to our hosts at University of Kansas, especially:  Jeffrey Vitter, Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost  Danny Anderson, Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences  Ann Cudd, Associate Dean for the Humanities  Marc Greenberg, Interim Associate Dean for the Humanities  Victor Bailey, Director of the Hall Center for the Humanities  Anna Neill, Chair, Department of English  J. Christopher Brown, Director, Environmental Studies Program  Danny Novo, Project Coordinator, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Web Services  Kate Meyer, Assistant Curator, Spencer Art Museum  Emily Ryan, Coordinator, The Commons  Jonathan Perkins, Director, Ermal Garinger Academic Resource Center  Sharon Leatherman, Office Manager for Events Services, Kansas Union  Whitney Fox, Catering Coordinator, Kansas Union  Lisa Eitner, Special Events, KU Bookstore  Chris Sewalish, Assistant Director for Apartment Living, Student Housing  Lori Whitten, Administrative Associate, Department of English  Clare Echterling, Publishers’ Exhibit coordinator, shuttle coordinator, and all-around organizer of many things  The Graduate Student Volunteers: Creighton Brown, Ali Brox, Dustin Crowley, Aaron Long, Annie Lowe, Ann Martinez, Ashley Ortiz, Jessica Weatherford, Mary Beth Woodson  And most especially to ASLE Managing Director Amy McIntyre and site host Byron Caminero-Santangelo. Without their commitment of time, energy, and intelligence, this conference would not have been possible. We also owe a debt of gratitude to the following people:  NEW-CUE President Joe Doll, and NEW-CUE (Nature and Environmental Writers, College and University Educators) for their generous sponsorship of two travel grants to independent scholars and graduate students.  The Conference Travel Awards Committee: Sarah Jaquette Ray, Anthony Lioi, Andrew Hageman and Tom Hillard  Conference proposal review committee: Catriona Sandilands and Anthony Lioi (special thanks to Anthony for help in naming panels)  Book and Paper Awards coordinator Tom Lynch  The judges for ASLE’s biennial awards in Ecocriticism and Environmental Creative Writing:  Scholarly Book: Stacy Alaimo, Mark Long, Lewis Ulman  Creative Writing Book: Jeff Thomson, Bernie Quetchenbach, Janine DeBaise  Graduate Student scholarly paper: Serpil Opperman, Dan Wylie, Jenny Kerber  Graduate student creative paper: Susan Hawthorne, Brian Bartlett, John Ryan  Preconference Workshop coordinator Greta Gaard  Authors’ Reception coordinators Salma Monani and Catherine Meeks  Community grants co-coordinators Joni Adamson and Mark Long  Christoph Irmscher and Ursula Heise, the host and program coordinator of the 2011 biennial conference, for their guidance and support

Travel Award Winners Publishers’ Exhibit $500 ASLE Graduate Travel Awards Kiu-wai Chu Univ. of Hong Kong/Univ. of Idaho Hours Vera R. Coleman Arizona State University Ng’ang’a wa Muchiri University of Miami Wednesday, May 29 8:30am – 5pm Samuel Awuah-Nyamekye University of Leeds Thursday, May 30 8:30am – 5pm Jamie Bolker Fordham University Friday, May 31 8:30am – 1pm $250 ASLE Graduate Travel Awards Saturday, June 1 8:30am – 12pm Chantal Bilodeau Independent Scholar Fabiana Dimpflmaier University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’ Location: Alderson, Kansas Memorial Union Yeonhaun Kang University of Florida Jennifer Bargara Sibara University of Southern California Exhibitors Patricia H. Audette-Longo Concordia University Jasmine Johnston University of British Columbia American Scientist Yvonne Kaisinger University of Salzburg Ecotone Adele Tiengo State University of Milan Milkweed Editions Benjamin Vogt University of Nebraska-Lincoln Lauren Woolbright Clemson University Orion Magazine $250 NEW-CUE Travel Awards Oxford University Press Lindsay Dunne Jacoby University of Maryland, College Park Penguin Group USA Maya L. Kapoor University of Arizona The Scholar's Choice University of Virginia Press University of Georgia Press Key Facility Hours & Information University of Nevada Press University of Illinois Press Conference Registration Desk University of Utah Press Location: Lobby, Kansas Memorial Union *Note: KU Bookstore/Jayhawk Ink will offer the Tuesday, May 28 12—7pm plenary speakers’ books for sale/signing by authors Wednesday, May 29 8am – 5pm Thursday, May 30 8am – 5pm in the Ballroom Parlors at each plenary session. Friday, May 31 8am – 1pm They offer 15% off and can arrange shipping for Saturday, June 1 8am – 1pm customers. Campus Housing Check-In Desk Check-in is at the main desk in the lobby of the dorm you have been assigned: Corbin Hall, GSP Hall, KK Amini Scholarship Hall or 2013 ASLE Book and Paper Award Winners Margaret Amini Scholarship Hall. These desks will be open 24 hours a day during ASLE, beginning May 27 at 9am and ending June 2 at Ecocriticism Book Award: 2pm. Staff members for conference services are easily recognizable, Rob Nixon, University of Wisconsin, Madison as they will be wearing red KU logo polo shirts. Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor Published by Harvard University Press Important: you must also check out with staff in person, and turn in your keys to them. If you do not check out in person and keys to Environmental Creative Writing Book Award: your room are not returned, ASLE will be charged for the remaining David Gessner, University of North Carolina, Wilmington nights of the conference, and for changing the locks on your room. The Tarball Chronicles: A Journey Beyond the Oiled Pelican These charges will then be passed on to you to pay in full. and into the Heart of the Gulf Oil Spill Published by Milkweed Press Dining Options The Market Café in the Kansas Memorial Union will be open May 28- Ecocriticism Graduate Student Paper Award: June 1 from 7am-3pm. It offers a wide variety of foods, William Lombardi (University of Nevada, Reno) including a salad bar and vegetarian, vegan, and gluten-free "Unequal Burdens: An Outline for Postlocal options. There is a coffee shop on the fourth floor of the Union (The Ecocriticism and Notes on the Location of Ecosocial Pulse) open till 5pm that serves drinks and snacks. ASLE will also Justice" (session 2S) offer a complimentary continental breakfast in the lobby of the Un- ion on Sunday, June 2 from 8am-11am. The best option for dinner Environmental Creative Writing will be the many restaurants in downtown Lawrence; the conference Graduate Student Paper Award: shuttles will run at dinnertime and most of the downtown Maya Laxmi Kapoor (University of Arizona) restaurants and bars are within walking distance of the dorms (1/4 "The Slowness of Our Eyes: A Creative Nonfiction Look mile to a mile), although the walk back is uphill. The food at the ban- at Life Through a Microscope" (session 4K) quet and receptions will be vegetarian with vegan and gluten free selections. 3

Downtown Shuttle Free shuttle buses (they will have a sign saying “private shuttle”) Sustainability at ASLE 2013 will be running continuously between campus and downtown in the morning and evening. Shuttle buses will be running on a 30 minute Carbon Footprint loop. The first 15 minutes of every half hour will cover arrival to/ From arranging bus transportation to and from the airport, to departure from the downtown stops (Tuesday 4:00-4:15, 4:30-4:45, creating a pedestrian-friendly conference, to our hybrid 5:00-5:15, etc.) and second 15 minutes will cover arrival to/ shuttle buses, we have tried to minimize our carbon footprint departure from Union (Tuesday 4:15-4:30, 4:45-5:00, 5:15-5:30, at the conference. We have also established a carbon offset etc.). General schedule is: program. Funds donated for carbon offsets during registra-  One bus running continuously between 4:00-9:30 pm on tion will be matched in amount by ASLE and donated to Tuesday May 28th “atmosfair,” a non-profit organization based in Bonn,  One bus running continuously from 7:30-10:30 am and from Germany (s for more 4:30- 9:30 pm on Wed. May 29, Thursday May 30, and Saturday information). Although ASLE recognizes the limitations of June 1. carbon offsets, we still believe they can play an important role. If you would like to donate and have not yet, you may do  One bus running continuously from 7:30-10:30 am, 12-1 pm, and so at the registration desk. 5:30-9:30 pm on Friday May 31. The stops will be: The Union, Wheatfields (heart of downtown), Program, Name Tags and Folders Eldridge Hotel, Spring Hill Suites Attendee name badges are 100% recycled paper, and the holders are made of biodegradable and reusable plastic. We Airport Shuttle will have receptacles at registration to drop the nametags in A reservation and advance payment is needed to ride the ASLE after you are done using them, in the hope that we can reuse airport shuttle. Shuttles will drop off and pick up at the campus them at future conferences. The registration packet folders residence buildings, downtown hotels and the Union (for those contain 100% post-consumer content. The program was staying at the Oread). If you have a flight delay, please email us printed locally using recycled paper and cover stock. with your new arrival information at [email protected]. If you Banquet and Receptions cannot email, call (785) 393-6032 and leave a message. We will do Every effort has been made to work with campus catering to our best to set up a new shuttle time for you and email or call you use local, organic, and sustainable products when possible. back, but cannot make guarantees. The food at the banquet and receptions will incorporate these Parking ingredients, and local beers will be served. Guests do NOT need parking permits. All resident hall lots are free Logo Items (this does not include metered spaces). Pay-as-you-go parking is The logo items at the conference are made of sustainable, also available in a covered lot adjacent to the KU Union. Do NOT recycled, organic or biodegradable materials. If you pre- park in other lots on campus; you will be ticketed. See campus map purchased items during online registration, you can pick them on back cover. up at the registration desk. If you did not pre-purchase an Technology and Business Services item, a limited number of these items are available for purchase at the registration desk. Attendees will have free access to the guest wireless network from their own laptop computers anywhere on campus. The password Things You Can Do to Contribute to a More will be emailed to you right before the conference and will be avail- Sustainable Conference: able at the registration desk.  Be mindful of how many times you print your conference All classrooms are equipped for most media needs except Skype. If paper, and print only necessary documents employing you plan to use tech in the classrooms, your best option will be to smaller margins, duplex printing, and other strategies to bring your own laptop; Mac users should bring a standard (VGA) reduce paper and ink consumption adaptor as well. You will also be able to use the computers in the rooms for your tech needs; the generic user id and password to  Consider posting handouts to a website or using access the computers will be given out at registration. Instructions PowerPoint rather than printing copies to distribute on how to use the technology in the classrooms are posted in the  Shut off lights and technology in academic and residence classrooms, but if problems arise the tech help desk number is rooms when not in use (785) 864-1200.  Patronize local and/or sustainable businesses for your Jayhawk Ink (2nd floor of the Kansas Memorial Union across the needs while in Lawrence hall from the main bookstore) offers shipping via UPS and can assist  Walk, bike, or make use of public transportation while in with any printing needs. Attendees get campus pricing at $.02 per Lawrence page for b/w and $.25 per page for color. They are closed on Mon-  Make use of recycling receptacles on campus day, May 27, but will be open from 8:30-5:30 Tuesday-Friday and Saturday from 10:00-5:30.  Reduce food waste and minimize consumption of heavily packaged foods Library Hours  Bring your own reusable water bottle or coffee mug, or Watson Library is next to Fraser Hall, where many of the sessions purchase one at the conference. will be taking place. Here are the hours: Mon, May 27 (Memorial Day) Closed For information on the University of Kansas and sustainability, Tuesday - Friday, May 28-31 8 am - 5 pm go to http://www.sustainability.ku.edu/Plan/index.shtml Sat, Jun 1 Closed Sun, Jun 2 1 pm - 5 pm 4

Messages and Meetups We will have a board at the registration desk to post your notes and messages. Feel free to post to and check our ASLE Facebook (http:// THEMATIC STREAMS www.facebook.com/pages/ASLE-Association-for-the-Study-of- Streams are a tool to help conference participants Literature-and-Environment/110738002282120) and Twitter pages select sessions they wish to attend. Wherever (http://twitter.com/#!/ASLE_US, use hashtag #asle13) for updates possible, we have tried not to schedule too many pan- and to connect with other conference attendees. els in the same stream concurrently so that participants with related interests can attend each other's Mentoring Meetings presentations. But since some streams have received These one-hour meetings are designed to welcome graduate stu- many more panel and paper submissions than others, dents and new members to the ASLE community and to provide professional mentoring to graduate students beyond their home some doubling up has been unavoidable, and some departments. There are a few open slots if you are still interested in streams are not represented in every time slot. this opportunity. Contact Mark Long, ASLE Mentoring Coordinator, Panels form part of one of the following streams, at [email protected]. which are listed next to the panel title in the program: Weather in Kansas Affect, Change, Loss While it is highly unlikely that severe weather will threaten your Beyond Words safety while you are at the conference, dangerous storms do Creative Writing happen here, and this is the season for them. In the event of a Ecopedagogy tornado warning, loud sirens will sound throughout Lawrence and Gender, Race, Justice the KU campus; you should take shelter immediately if you hear one Geographies go off. The Kansas Memorial Union and other buildings on campus Green/Theory have shelters where you will be safe. For more information on what Nature Writing and Ecopoetics to do in the event of severe weather, please see: http:// Postcolonial and Transnational Environments kualerts.com/severe-thunderstorm/. Species and Food

ASLE Officers & Coordinators Spencer Art Museum Exhibitions Voting Officers The Spencer Museum of Art at KU has curated two small President: Paul Outka, University of Kansas exhibitions from their permanent collection to coincide with Vice-President: Mark Long, Keene State College the ASLE Conference: Immediate Past President: Joni Adamson, Arizona State University Diversity Coordinator: Salma Monani, Gettysburg College Graduate Student Liaison (senior): Andrew Hageman, Luther College Teaching Gallery: Ecocritical Art History May 14 - June 9, 2013 | Gallery 319 Executive Council These works have been selected to complement a Allison Carruth, University of California, Los Angeles (2013-2015) pre-conference seminar organized by Professor Alan Christoph Irmscher, Indiana University, Bloomington (2012-2014) Braddock at the College of William & Mary concerning the Stephanie LeMenager, University of California, Santa Barbara / University of Oregon (2012-2014) emerging study of ecocriticism in the field of art history. Anthony Lioi, The Juilliard School (2011-2013) Research topics of particular interest include natural history Sarah Jaquette Ray, University of Alaska, Southeast (2013-2015) illustration, 19th-century photographic depictions of fog, Kimberly Ruffin, Roosevelt University (2011-2013) Robert Adams photographs, representations of glaciers, and issues related to ecocritical assessments of contemporary Coordinators art. Executive Secretary: Karla Armbruster, Webster University International Liaison: George Handley, Brigham Young University Graduate Student Liaison (junior): Andrew Husband, Texas Tech Conversation XIV: Water University March 23 - July 28, 2013 | 20/21 Gallery Conversation Wall Graduate Student Mentoring Program Coordinator: Mark Long, Water is timeless… or is it? This installation of works Keene State College explores contemporary artists’ perspectives on the elixir of Awards Coordinator: Tom Lynch, University of Nebraska, Lincoln life: H₂0. Many of the works assembled for this installation Professional Liaison Coordinator: Tonia Payne, Nassau Community take an ecocritical approach to the subject matter, exploring College - SUNY ASLE News Editor: Catherine Meeks, University of Tennessee at pollution and scarcity, whereas others address water less Chattanooga literally and more symbolically, as a cleansing or destructive ISLE Editor: Scott Slovic, University of Idaho force. From this selection of 20th- and 21st-Century works, a Book Review Editor, ISLE: Tom Hillard, Boise State University subtle visual dialogue emerges between the Kaw River of Kansas and the Yangtze of China. Work by ASLE presenter Site Host Byron Caminero-Santangelo, University of Kansas and artist Lisa Grossman is featured in this exhibit. Staff Museum Hours: 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Tuesday Friday & Saturday; Managing Director: Amy McIntyre 10 a.m.-8 p.m. Wednesday-Thursday; Noon-4 p.m. Sunday. 5

Program in Brief:

Tuesday, May 28 9am – 4pm: Executive Council Meeting - Sabatini Multicultural Resource Center 12 – 7pm: Registration desk open – Lobby, Kansas Memorial Union 12 - 5pm: Setup for Publishers’ Exhibit – Alderson, Kansas Memorial Union 2 – 5pm: Pre-Conference Workshops and Seminars – Various rooms in Kansas Memorial Union 5:30 – 6:30pm: Membership Meeting – Big 12 Room, Kansas Memorial Union 7 – 8:30pm: Opening Reception, Sponsored by Oxford University Press – The Commons Wednesday, May 29 7am– 3pm: Kansas Memorial Union Market Café open continuously for breakfast and lunch on your own 8am – 5pm: Registration desk open – Lobby, Kansas Memorial Union 8:30am – 5pm: Publishers’ Exhibit – Alderson, Kansas Memorial Union 8:30 – 10am: Concurrent Sessions 1 – Various Classrooms 10:30 – 12pm: Plenary 1: Rob Nixon – Ballroom, Kansas Memorial Union 1:30 – 3pm: Concurrent Sessions 2 – Various Classrooms 3:30 – 5pm: Concurrent Sessions 3 – Various Classrooms 5:30 – 7pm: Plenary 2: Antonia Juhasz – Ballroom, Kansas Memorial Union 7 – 8:30pm: Dinner on your own – Shuttles running to downtown 8:30 – 10pm: Graduate Student/International Receptions – Adams Alumni Center Thursday, May 30 7am– 3pm: Kansas Memorial Union Market Café open continuously for breakfast and lunch on your own 8am – 5pm: Registration desk open – Lobby, Kansas Memorial Union 8:30am – 5pm: Publishers’ Exhibit – Alderson, Kansas Memorial Union 8:30 – 10am: Concurrent Sessions 4 – Various Classrooms 10:30 – 12pm: Plenary 3: Stacy Alaimo & Cary Wolfe – Ballroom, Kansas Memorial Union 12:30-1:30: ASLE Diversity Caucus Meeting – Smith 100 1:30 – 3pm: Concurrent Sessions 5 – Various Classrooms 3:30 – 5pm: Plenary 4: Maxine Burkett – Ballroom, Kansas Memorial Union 5:30 - 6:30pm: Interest Group Meetings – Various Rooms in Kansas Memorial Union 6:30 - 8pm: Dinner — Shuttles running to downtown 8 - 9:30 pm: Authors' Reception, Sponsored by Orion and Milkweed Editions – The Commons Friday, May 31 7am– 3pm: Market Café, Kansas Memorial Union open continuously for breakfast and lunch on your own 8:00am – 1pm: Registration desk open – Lobby, Kansas Memorial Union 8:30am – 1pm: Publishers’ Exhibit – Alderson, Kansas Memorial Union 8:30 – 10am: Concurrent Sessions 6 – Various Classrooms 10:30 – 12pm: Concurrent Sessions 7 – Various Classrooms 12:15 – 7:30pm: Field Trips on and off campus (or time on your own) 5 – 7:30pm: Dinner – Shuttles running to downtown 8 – 9:30pm: Plenary 5: Juan Carlos Galeano & Jeff Thomson – Woodruff Auditorium, Kansas Memorial Union Saturday, June 1 7am– 3pm: Market Café, Kansas Memorial Union open continuously for breakfast and lunch on your own 8am – 1pm: Registration desk open – Lobby, Kansas Memorial Union 8:30am–12pm: Publishers’ Exhibit – Alderson, Kansas Memorial Union 8:30 – 10am: Concurrent Sessions 8 – Various Classrooms 10:30am–12pm: Plenary 6: Daniel Wildcat - Woodruff Auditorium, Kansas Memorial Union 12:30-1:30pm 1:30 – 3pm: Concurrent Sessions 9 – Various Classrooms 3:30 – 5pm: Concurrent Sessions 10 – Various Classrooms 5:15 – 6:45pm: Plenary 7: Donald Worster & Wes Jackson - Woodruff Auditorium, Kansas Memorial Union 7 – 9pm: Banquet (purchased tickets required) – Ballroom, Kansas Memorial Union Sunday, June 2 8 – 11 am: Complimentary Continental Breakfast – Lobby, Kansas Memorial Union

Tuesday, May 28

Ecocritical Art History Pre-Conference Sessions: 2 - 5 pm RECEPTION ROOM, SPENCER MUSEUM OF ART Leader: Alan Braddock, The College of William & Mary

 Christopher Todd Anderson, Pittsburg State University, Garbage, Pre-conference Seminars and Workshop Art, Environments (for pre-registrants only)  Renee Ater, University of Maryland, Alexander Gardner’s Photographs of the Ecological Disaster of Antietam Seminars:  The Challenge of Environmentalist Art as Utility Vehicles Climate Change Ecocriticisms JAYHAWK ROOM, KANSAS MEMORIAL UNION  Kiu-wai Chu, University of Hong Kong/University of Idaho, New Leaders: Janet Fiskio, Oberlin College, and Michael Ziser, University Chinese Landscapes: An Eco-materialist Approach towards Xu of California, Davis Bing’s Background Story  Saskia Cornes, Columbia University, Futures Past: Climate  Don Fredericksen, Cornell University, TBA Change and the Georgic Mode  Frank Fucile, The College of William and Mary, Green Target: The  Teresa Coronado, University of Wisconsin-Parkside, Cooper as Aim of New Materialist Ecocriticism Naturalist and Metaphor: James Fenimore Cooper’s The  Scott Hess, Earlham College, Why Ecocriticism Still Needs Pathfinder and Confrontations of Frontier-ism “Nature”: the Example of Asher Durand  Sara L. Crosby, Ohio State University at Marion, Outside the  Elizabeth Hutchinson, Barnard College, Climate and Chemistry: Wall: Beasts of the Southern Wild and the Representation of Photographic Fog in the Nineteenth Century South Louisiana’s Climate Refugees  Christoph Irmscher, Indiana University, Bloomington, Towards an  Barbara Eckstein, University of Iowa, Strange Climate and Settler Ecological Understanding of Natural History Illustration Culture: Tales from Down Under  George LeBourdais, Stanford University, Bodies of Ice/Bodies of  Stephanie Fitzgerald, University of Kansas, Climate Change as Knowledge, or the Thing About Nineteenth-Century Glacial Indigenous Dispossession for the Twenty-First Century: The Ecologies Case of the United Houma Nation of Louisiana  Kate Meyer, Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas,  Everett Hamner, Western Illinois University, The Novel as Aerial “When Tillage Begins”: The Other Arts, and Making a Difference Lens, Rock Salt, and Time Capsule: The Paradigm Shifts of Kim  James Nisbet, University of California, Irvine, Shifting Ecologies Stanley Robinson and the Shaping of Contemporary Art  George Hart, California State University Long Beach, c o 2 a n d a  David Stentiford, Stanford University, Weighing Visible Ecological l l: Larry Eigner’s Ecopoetics and Climate Change Associations  Matthew Hooley, The College of Wooster, After the Spectacular:  Celka Straughn, Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Climate Change, Photography, and Indian Country “This world of apathy and ugliness”: Ludwig Meidner’s  Lindsay Dunne Jacoby, University of Maryland-College Park, Who Apocalyptic Landscapes and the Urban Environment in Late is Environmentalism for? Wilhemine Germany  Kathryn Kirkpatrick, Appalachian State University, Towards a  William J. Stroup, Keene State College, Landscape Art and the Climate Change Eco-Poetics Land Ethic  Cheryl Lousley, Lakehead University, Climate Change, Science  Jim Warren, Washington and Lee University, Forms of a Fiction, and Postcolonial Biology Geography: Robert Adams’s Faith in the Light  Antonia Mehnert, Rachel Carson Center, Munich University, “Back to the Future”- Re-Imagining Time in T.C. Boyle’s A Friend Ecocriticism and Latin America of the Earth ALCOVE G, KANSAS MEMORIAL UNION  Nancy Menning, Ithaca College, An Apocalypse of Butterflies: The Leader: Jorge Marcone, Rutgers, The State University Religious Imagination in Barbara Kingsolver’s Flight Behavior  Dulce Abigail Perez Aguilera, Arizona State University, TBA  Nicole M. Merola, Rhode Island School of Design, Confronting  Simão Farias Almeida, Federal University of Roraima, Climate Denialism: Helen Simpson’s In-Flight Entertainment Ecojournalism and Ecoliterature on the Brazilian Literary  Stephen Siperstein, University of Oregon, Do the Math, then Get Journalism Arrested: From Apocalyptic Narratives to Scary Numbers and  Mark Anderson, University of Georgia, Uncaging Criticism: What That Says About the Evolution of the Climate Change On Dissensus, Decoloniality, and Latin American Ecological Movement Thought  Brett Werner, Centre College, Individualizing the solution…  Scott DeVries, Bethel College, The Nature of Miners and Oilers: Derrick Jensen and An Inconvenient Truth Ecological Representations of the Resource Curse in Spanish American Literature  Roberto J. Forns-Broggi, Metropolitan State University of Denver, Agreement with and Variance from Indigenous Knowledge: Unlearning Monolingual Mind-Sets

Tuesday, May 28

 Yvonne Kaisinger, University of Salzburg, Changing Visions of Vegetal Ecocriticism: The Question of “The Plant” Changing Natures: Latin American Literature and the KANSAS ROOM, KANSAS MEMORIAL UNION Environment Leaders: Joni Adamson, Arizona State University, and Cate  Jeremy G. Larochelle, University of Mary Washington, Ecological Sandilands, York University Loss and Interconnectedness in Recent Amazonian Poetry: The  Elizabeth Callaway, UC Santa Barbara, Towards an Aesthetics of Place of Amazonian Thought in Ecocritical Studies of Latin Difference: Eduardo Kac's Edunia and the Overemphasis on American Literature Similarity  Gabriela Nuñez, California State University, Fullerton,  Hannes De Vriese, Université de Toulouse II-Le Miraill (France) / A Sustainable Future? U.S.-Latino Science Fiction and Ecocriti- Universiteit Gent (Belgium), Dormancy: Learning the Patience of cism of the Global South Plants with Jean-Loup Trassard  David Taylor, University of North Texas, TBA  Erin Despard, Concordia University, On Garden Writing and the  Ignacio Valero, California College of the Arts, EcoDomics, Market Socialization of the Vegetal  Micha Gerrit Philipp Edlich, Johannes Gutenberg University, "My  Mary-Anne Vetterling, Regis College, TBA intelligence is a web": "Plant-Thinking" and Plant Rights in Alan Moore's Swamp Thing  Priscilla Solis Ybarra, University of North Texas, Latina/o Environmental?  Hsinya Huang, National Sun Yat-sen University, Orality, Textuality and Memory: The Power of the Plant in Pacific Islands Writing

Material Ecocriticism and Changing Natures  Wang Huang, The Ohio State University, The Touch of An Other: CENTENNIAL ROOM, KANSAS MEMORIAL UNION Flower-Spirits, Body, and Place in Liaozhai zhiyi Leaders: Serenella Iovino, University of Turin, and Serpil Oppermann,  Annie Merrill Ingram, Davidson College, Sentience and Hacettepe University Personification  Yalan Chang, Huafan University, A Transcorporeal Reading of  Julie Joosten, Experience Elsewhere: Light and the Matter of the Margaret Atwood's Surfacing Plant  John Claborn, University of Louisville, Postmodernism and  Yeonhaun Kang, University of Florida, Journey into Vegetal Material Ecocriticism Aesthetics: Food, Gardening, and Transpacific Environmental  Amanda Di Battista, York University, Looking for Place: Material Studies Ecocritical Perspectives on Place-Conscious Pedagogy  Maya L. Kapoor, University of Arizona, The Social Life of Plants  Sabrina Ferri, University of Notre Dame, Giacomo Leopardi's  Margaret Konkol, Georgia Institute of Technology, The Civic Life of Poetic Materialism: A New Perspective on the Nature of Things Trees  James Finley, University of New Hampshire, Eco-materialist  Anthony Lioi, The Juilliard School, There's Nothing Wrong with Ethics in the Antebellum U.S Men That Plants Can't Fix: Phytomorphic Genderfuck in  Rochelle Johnson, The College of Idaho, Ineffable Materiality Contemporary Science Fiction  Sigfrid Kjeldaas, University of Tromsø, New Materialisms in an  Gillian Osborne, University of California Berkeley, Representative Arctic Setting Men, Vegetative Men: Emersonian Composition  Xinmin D. Liu, Washington State University, Embedded New  Darren Patrick, York University, Grounding the Ghetto Palm: Materialism and the Case about Manufactured Landscape Toward a Vegetal Ethics and Politics of Queer Urban Ecologies  Lance Newman, Westminster College, The Matter of the Classed  Elana Santana, York University, Old Growth Feminism: Arboreal Body Agencies on Lesbian Land  Judith Rauscher, University of Bamberg, Eco-materialist  Aubrey Streit Krug, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Producing Concerns in the Poetry of Juliana Spahr and Ed Roberson Plant Bodies on the Great Plains  Sarah Jaquette Ray, University of Alaska Southeast,  Sarah Weiger, University of Portland, "It bloomed and dropt": Environmental Justice, the Toxic Sublime, and Materiality in Phenology in Dickinson and Thoreau Edward Burtynsky’s Manufactured Landscapes  Christian Hummelsund Voie, Mid Sweden University, Material Workshop: Ecocriticism and the Landscape of Fear in American Nature Writing Teaching a Tree ENGLISH ROOM, KANSAS MEMORIAL UNION  Kerim Can Yazgünoglu, Hacettepe University, Posthuman Leaders: Sydney Landon Plum, University of Connecticut, and Narrative NatureCultures: Problematization of Politics of Life in Susan L. Tomlinson, Texas Tech University Material Ecocriticism

 Zümre Gizem Yilmaz, Hacettepe University, Dirt and Garbage as a Text: Discursive Matters

Tuesday, May 28

Meeting: 5:30 - 6:30 pm ASLE Membership Meeting Big 12 Room, Kansas Memorial Union Moderated by Mark Long, ASLE Vice President

Join the Executive Council for an update on the latest ASLE business, including reports on ASLE’s financial status, new grants and programs, diversity initiatives, collaborations with allied organizations, and off-year symposia, among other topics. If you are interested in getting more involved in ASLE, this is a great opportunity to do so!

Reception: 7 - 8:30 pm Opening Reception, Sponsored by Oxford University Press The Commons, Spooner Hall

Help us kick off the conference with hearty food and drink, good conversation and a chance to greet old friends and make new ones. Come and see our new ASLE logo, which will be unveiled for the first time at this event!

There will be a short program at 7:30pm: Jeffrey Vitter, Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost at the University of Kansas, will welcome ASLE to KU. Trish Thomas from OUP and Scott Slovic, editor of our Journal ISLE, will give a few short remarks about our publishing partnership as it enters its fifth year. ASLE President and conference program chair Paul Outka will also give a brief welcome.

Plenty of hot and cold appetizers and desserts, plus an open bar of beer and wine.

The Kansas Jayhawk So-called “Bleeding Kansas” was the site of brutal paramiltary struggles between pro-slavery and Abolitionist settlers from roughly 1855-1858, in advance of a vote that would decide whether the Territory entered the Union as a Free or Slave state. Violence persisted throughout the Civil War, including attacks by Kansas native John Brown and his sons, and the infamous "Quantrill's Raid" on Lawrence in 1863 that burned most of the town to the ground and killed more than 150 men and boys. "Jayhawk" was an insulting term used by proslavery settlers for their anti-slavery opponents—combining the hawk's stealth and the quarrelsome jay's propensity to steal from other birds. For more information on the history of the jayhawk, see: http://www.ku.edu/about/traditions/jayhawk.php.

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Session 1: 8:30 - 10 am 1E. Acoustic Environments Stream: Beyond Words FRASER 225 1A. Weather Machines Chair: Erin Scheffer, University of Toronto Stream: Affect, Change, Loss  Marc Hudson, Wabash College, Marc Auge and William Stafford: FRASER 119 Resisting the Global and Welcoming the Local Through Radical Chair: Christopher Schaberg, Loyola University New Orleans Listening  Christopher Schaberg, Loyola University New Orleans,  Mirja Lobnik, Georgia Institute of Technology, Listening to Conditions Beyond Control Another World: Indigenous Voices and the Land  Andrew C. Hageman, Luther College, Weather Machines  Melissa Brotton, La Sierra University, Nature's Music in the Involving and Involved Ecopoetry of Elizabeth Barrett Browning  Clara Van Zanten, Luther College, Cloud Machines

1F. The Migration of Meaning 1B. Thinking the End: Apocalypse, Extinction, and Stream: Creative Writing Anti-futurity in 21st Century Poetics FRASER 124 Stream: Affect, Change, Loss Chair: Elizabeth Bradfield, Brandeis University SPOONER HALL, THE COMMONS  Christine Byl, Dirt Work: An Education in the Woods Chair: Lynn Keller, University of Wisconsin-Madison  Elizabeth Bradfield, Brandeis University, In the Wake of: Poems  Lynn Keller, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Making Art “Under Tracking MacMillan These Apo-Calypso Rays”  Eva Saulitis, University of Alaska Anchorage, Still Dreaming of a  Angela Hume, University of California, Davis, An Ecopoetics of Common Language the Limit: Myung Mi Kim's Penury

 Matthew Hooley, The College of Wooster, Toxic Recognition: 1G. Companions in Wonder: Children and Adults Exploring Rethinking the Apocalyptic in Sherwin Bitsui and Will Wilson Nature Together Stream: Creative Writing 1C. Western American Film: Bodies, Technology, Nature FRASER 117 (Sponsored by the Western Literature Association) Chair: Susan Cohen, Anne Arundel Community College Stream: Beyond Words  Janine DeBaise, SUNY, College of Environmental Science and FRASER 122 Forestry, If Henry David Thoreau had a Reality TV Show Chair: Kerry Fine, Texas Tech University  Rick Van Noy, Radford University, After the Wonder Years: What Kerry Fine, Texas Tech University, Our Monsters, Ourselves: The to Do with Teens in the Woods Anxiety of Edible Bodies Christopher T. Gonzalez, Texas A&M University, Commerce, Brown  Susan Cohen, Anne Arundel Community College, Littoral Drifter Bodies, Cyber Braceros: Migration and Power in Alex Rivera’s  Michael P. Branch, University of Nevada, Reno, Silver Hills Kids Sleep Dealer Nicolas S. Witschi, Western Michigan University, The 1H. Revising Place-Conscious Composition Metacinematic West: Nature, Koyaanisqatsi, and the Stream: Ecopedagogy Technological Sublime FRASER 214 Chair: Aubrey Streit Krug, University of Nebraska-Lincoln 1D. Animated Natures  Jeff Lacey, Ralston High School, Really Going In: Local Watershed Stream: Beyond Words Education in a Suburban High School FRASER 106 Chair: Ursula Heise, University of California, Los Angeles  Catherine M. English, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Work Ethnographies: Teaching Economic Sustainability  Michelle Yates, Columbia College Chicago, “Stay the Course” of Environmental Crisis: Mainstream Environmentalism and  Susan Martens, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, The Writing WALL-E’s Edenic Recovery Marathon: Writing in Place for Teaching Writing, Teaching Place, and Teaching Inquiry  Hakan Yilmaz, Hacettepe University, Animating Develop/mentalism, Environmentalism and Publicity in Wall-E  Aubrey Streit Krug, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Solving for Perennial Patterns: Composing Place-Conscious Citizenship

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1I. Place, Writing, and Pedagogy 1M. Literature as Compost Stream: Ecopedagogy Stream: Green/Theory FRASER 223 FRASER 222 Chair: Kevin Maier, University of Alaska Southeast Chair: Brett Werner, Centre College  Barbara E. George, Kent State University, Distribution,  Steven Skattebo, University of Arkansas, "Compost Sustainability and Literacy Happens": Metaphor, Science, and Interdisciplinarity  Meredith Harvey, George Williams College of Aurora University,  Michelle Niemann, University of Wisconsin-Madison, An Applied Approach to Environmental Composition: Service Compost and Pleasure: Organic Form and Organic Farming in Learning, Living Laboratories, and Literature in an Wendell Berry's Poetry and Prose Interdisciplinary Undergraduate Classroom  Daniel E. Burke, Marquette University, The (De)Composition of  Katie Fallon, West Virginia University, Writing Appalachian Ecopoetics in Whitman, Niedecker, and Stevens Ecology: Essays, Outreach, and Activism  Phillip David Johnson, II, Colorado State University, We All Throw 1N. Organic Objects and Activism Things Away! Teaching Place-Based Literature in a Place-less Stream: Green/Theory Classroom SMITH 107 Chair: Maggie Kainulainen, University of Illinois 1J. Preservation and Exploitation in Indigenous  Maggie Kainulainen, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Environmental Practice "Awful in Both Senses of the Word": Aesthetic Experience and Stream: Gender, Race, Justice Climate Change Pedagogy at Chicago's Brookfield Zoo FRASER 111  Mary Pinard, Babson College, Limits, Energy, and Migration: The Chair: Simon Estok, Sungkyunkwan University Art of Weaving as (Prairie) Restoration and Metaphor in the  Jennifer Wheat, University of Hawaii-Hilo, Hungry for Honu: Down Work of Sheila Hicks the Hatch with Another Endangered Species  Daniel Barclay, Western Illinois University, Christmas Trees in the  Scott Cannon Cameron, Brigham Young University-Idaho, Wildly Capitol: Turning Nature into a Rhetoric of Power Domestic: The Cultural Landscapes of Zitkala-Sa, Charles Eastman, and Luther Standing Bear 1O. Beasts, Biology, and Bicycles in H. G. Wells  Karen Thornber, Harvard University, Anthropocentric Ecologies Stream: Nature Writing and Ecopoetics and the “Ecological Native”: The Limits of Environmental FRASER 208 Conservation in American Indian, Mâori, and Aboriginal Chair: Jeremy Withers, Iowa State University Taiwanese Literatures  Jeremy Withers, Iowa State University, Bicycling and Human Arrogance in Wells’ War of the Worlds 1K. Indigenous Stories: From Ontology to Activism  Helena Feder, East Carolina University, Wells, Darwin, and the Stream: Gender, Race, Justice Missing Link of Desire FRASER 212 Chair: Paris Masek, Arizona State University  Clare Echterling, University of Kansas, “I wish I’d never set eyes on your infernal island”: The Island Laboratory and the  Paris Masek, Arizona State University, Elemental Flow: The Posthuman Environment Footprint of Environmental Change and Cultural Transformations Living Inside Pueblo Literature 1P. Transformations: Thoreau and Changing Nature  Nimachia Hernandez, The Other Becomes the Self: Reciprocity (Sponsored by The Thoreau Society) and Reflection in Land-Animal-Human Ecologies Stream: Nature Writing and Ecopoetics  Kyle Bladow, University of Nevada, Reno, Restorying for FRASER 107 Resilience Chair: James Finley, University of New Hampshire  Rochelle Johnson, The College of Idaho, Returning to the Matter 1L. Ecocriticism and Narrative Theory of Spirit: New/Feminist Materialism and the Requisite Recovery Stream: Green/Theory of Thoreau’s Radical Nature FRASER 113  Karla M. Armbruster, Webster University, Walking with Thoreau Chair: Erin James, University of Idaho in Mind and Dog(s) on Leash  Erin James, University of Idaho, Ecocriticism and Narrative  Diane P. Freedman, University of New Hampshire, Thoreau at Storyworlds Mid-Life: “The Widow-Maker”  Eric Morel, University of Washington, Making “New A

cquaintances” in Reading: Jewett, Vaillant, and a Narrative Theory Foray into Ecocriticism  Anna Banks, University of Idaho, Achieving Animal Subjectivity Through the Use of Restricted POV Camera Techniques in Jean- Jaques Annaud’s The Bear  Glenn Willmott, Queen's University, Ecologizing Plot, Animalizing Character

Wednesday, May 29 1Q. Africa, Water, and the Politics of Infrastructure  Leslie Olson, Human Write Communications, Disintegrated Stream: Postcolonial and Transnational Environments Environmental Identity and Displaced Environmental SABATINI MULTICULTURAL RESOURCE CENTER Heritage: Depictions of Refugees’ Places and the Chair and Moderator: Garth Myers, Trinity College Implications for Environmental Justice (Part II)  Peter Soppelsa, University of Oklahoma, From the Sahara to the  Susan Berry Brill de Ramirez, Bradley University, Geographies of Tropics: Images of Africa in Paris's Water Crisis Belonging and Placefulness in the Intersections of  Daniel Mains, University of Oklahoma, Mud, Seepage, and Flows: Indigeneity and Diaspora The Role of Water in Mediating the Experience of Infrastructure in Urban Ethiopia 1T. Posthuman Families  Shannon Jackson, University of Missouri-Kansas City, South Stream: Species and Food Africa’s “Toilet Wars” and the Politics of Waste SMITH 108 Chair: John Bruni, Grand Valley State University

1R. Indigenous Environmentalisms in Postcolonial African Literature I—The Country, the City, and the Forest Stream: Postcolonial and Transnational Environments  Brian Deyo, Grand Valley State University, Strange Fits of FRASER 123 Chair: Chengyi Coral Wu, University of Nevada, Reno  Robert B. Mellin, Purdue University North Central, Kurt  Chengyi Coral Wu, University of Nevada, Reno, African Concepts Vonnegut's Galápagos: Looking for Mutualism at the Origin of of Country and City: Post/colonial Environments in Cyprian Evolutionary Narratives Ekwensi’s Burning Grass  Brady Smith, University of Chicago, Gikuyu na Mumbi: Urban 1U. Becoming Animal Ecology in Ngugi wa Thiongo'o's Wizard of the Crow Stream: Species and Food  Respondent: Scott Slovic, University of Idaho FRASER 112 Chair: Heather Swan, University of Wisconsin-Madison

 1S. Diaspora, Refugees, and Place Lora Geriguis, La Sierra University, An Ecocritical Re-reading of the Rabbit-Breeding Woman of Surrey, Mary Toft (1726) Stream: Postcolonial and Transnational Environments SMITH 100  Heather Swan, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Becoming Bee: Chair: Susan Berry Brill de Ramirez, Bradley University  Robert Melchior Figueroa, University of North Texas,  Hong, Chen, Shanghai Normal University, Eco-consciousness or Disintegrated Environmental Identity and Displaced Ecophobia? Reading Shen Shixi's Animal Fiction Environmental Heritage: Depictions of Refugees’ Places and the Implications for Environmental Justice (Part I)

Plenary Session 1: 10:30 am - 12 pm

This Brief Multitude: The Anthropocene and Our Age of Disparity Ballroom, Kansas Memorial Union

Wednesday, May 29 Lunch: 12 - 1:30 pm

Session 2: 1:30 - 3 pm  Susan Rowland, Pacifica Graduate Institute, Gothic Hell in Human/Nonhuman Nature: (Re)connecting Psyche and Nature through Myth and Wuthering Heights 2A. Affect and Environmentalism in the Nineteenth Century  Tom J. Hillard, Boise State University, Hawthorne’s Chickens: Stream: Affect, Change, Loss Ecocriticism, Emblematic Nature, and Anxieties of Decay in The FRASER 117 House of the Seven Gables Chair: Seth Reno, Wittenberg University  Seth Reno, Wittenberg University, Rethinking the Romantics' 2E. From “Other" to Us: Reclaiming the Eco-Cinematic Love of Nature Space  Emily Conheady, “Slake his Thirst with the Steaming Blood": Stream: Beyond Words Affect Theory, Animal Welfare, and the Romantic Sublime SMITH 100 Chair: Joni Adamson, Arizona State University  William J. Stroup, Keene State College, Embarrassing Displays of Devotion in Nineteenth-Century Paintings  Salma Monani, Gettysburg College, Kissed by Lightning and Indigenous Cinema’s Natureculture Continuum  Lisa Ottum, Xavier University, Affect, Romantic (Mis)reading, and the Case of Chris McCandless  Jennifer Barager Sibara, University of Southern California, Questions of the Future in Agent Orange Documentaries

2B. Green Hearts, Black Hands: Ecocriticism and Oil  Deborah Adelman, College of DuPage, Tulpan: Life on the Stream: Affect, Change, Loss Kazakh Steppes FRASER 122  Alexa Weik von Mossner, University of Klagenfurt, The Prettiest Chair: Heidi Scott, Florida International University Place on Earth: Understanding Eco-Cinematic Space in Beasts of  Steven M. Hoffman, University of St. Thomas, Expanding the the Southern Wild Footprint: Tar Sands, Pipelines and Rhetoric of Opposition  Matthew Schneider-Mayerson, University of Minnesota, Peak Oil 2F. Connecting with Canines: A Creative Non-Fiction Fiction and the Post-Carbon Imaginary Reading Stream: Creative Writing  Heidi Scott, Florida International University, American Oil Culture FRASER 225 Before the Age of Petroleum Chair: Corey Lewis, Humboldt State University

 2C. Paper Jam: Diminishing Returns: Waste, Diminution and Corey Lewis, Humboldt State University, Prairie Wolf Decay in 20th-Century American Literature  Paul Bogard, James Madison University, Once You Gain an Stream: Affect, Change, Loss Ecological Education You Live Alone in a World of Wounds, or, FRASER 106 How Walking My Dog Three Times a Day Keeps Me Alive Chair: Randall Roorda, University of Kentucky  Ceiridwen Terrill, Concordia University, Part Wild: Caught  Aaron Cloyd, University of Kentucky, A Witness of Decay: Between the Worlds of Wolves and Dogs Entropy as Unavailable Energy in Cormac McCarthy's All the Pretty Horses 2G. Paper Jam: The Poetics of Emplacement: Spoon River  Margaret Johnson, Idaho State University, “One Big Tangled Poetry Review Poets Read Thing”: Degradation and Loss in Don DeLillo’s The Names Stream: Creative Writing FRASER 107  Jenna Goldsmith, University of Kentucky, Building a House to Chair: Kirstin Hotelling Zona, Illinois State University & Spoon River Hold us all: Natural Debris and Literary Ref(use) in Alison Poetry Review Bechdel's Fun Home   Leah Bayens, St. Catharine College, Shit Is Happening: Compost Kirstin Hotelling Zona, Illinois State University & Spoon River as Dwelling in American Farming Texts Poetry Review, The Poetics of Emplacement: SRPR Poets Read  William Stobb, University of Wisconsin, La Crosse, In Geological  Randall Roorda, University of Kentucky, Tumblebugs: Hrabal, Time: A Great Basin Poetics Ammons, and Crap  Joshua Corey, Lake Forest College, Revising the Pastoral Poetic 2D. Dark Nature: Ecocriticism and the Gothic  Tyler Mills, University of Illinois-Chicago, Poetics of Emplacement Stream: Affect, Change, Loss  Holms Troelstrup, Bradley University, Dis/Connections: Limits FRASER 124 and Intention Chair: Tom J. Hillard, Boise State University  Adrian Matejka, Indiana University Bloomington, Poetry Zoos &  Sarah Groeneveld, University of Wisconsin-Madison, The Poetics of Emplacement Animals Have Faces: Margaret Atwood’s Gothic Beasts  Troy Boone, University of Pittsburgh, Green Horror: The Ruination of the Human

Wednesday, May 29

2H. Graduate Student Special Session: Topographies of  Alicia J. Carroll, Auburn University, “We Are Two Women”: New Professionalization I: Nearing the Market(s) Woman Ecologies and the Market Garden Stream: Ecopedagogy  Carol Dickson, Sterling College, Gendered Landscapes in Early SABATINI MULTICULTURAL RESOURCE CENTER Twentieth-Century New England Ballads Chair: Andrew Hageman, Luther College Panelists: Andrew Hageman, Luther College 2M. Extreme Identities: Adventure and the Limits of Nature Christopher Schaberg, Loyola University New Orleans Stream: Geographies Heather Sullivan, Trinity University FRASER 222 Mark Allister, St. Olaf College Chair: Kristin J. Jacobson, Stockton College

 Kristin J. Jacobson, Stockton College, American Adrenaline 2 Foreign Language Education and the Environment I. Narrative: Adventurous Natures, Risky Religions Stream: Ecopedagogy FRASER 206  Elizabeth Mazzolini, Virginia Tech, Redefining Access Chair: Uwe Kuechler, Universität Bonn  Breyan Strickler, Loras College, Man on the Mountain  Uwe Kuechler, Universität Bonn, Languages, Cultures, Environments: Diversifying Teaching Approaches 2N. Home and Away: Memory, Ecology, Writing, and Place  Natalie Eppelsheimer, Middlebury College, Greening the German Stream: Geographies Classroom FRASER 212 Chair: Jim Wohlpart, Florida Gulf Coast University  Charlotte Melin, University of Minnesota,Twin Cities, Contemporary Germany: Environmental Issues in the Foreign  David Taylor, University of North Texas, Entre Hogar y Querencia: Language Classroom Complexities of Cuban-American Environmentalism in Southern Florida

2J. Climate Justice, Indigenous Peoples, and Collective  Sasha Wohlpart, Florida Gulf Coast University, Sustainable Living: Action (Sponsored by the International Association of Ecological Exploration from Florida to Costa Rica Environmental Philosophy)  Jim Wohlpart, Florida Gulf Coast University, Restor(y)ing the Self Stream: Gender, Race, Justice and the Home: Ecological Restoration in Ray’s Ecology of a FRASER 223 Cracker Childhood Chair: Janet Fiskio, Oberlin College  John Lane, Wofford College, A Selection of Recent Poems from  Kyle Powys Whyte, Michigan State University, Climate Justice and Travels in the Bahamas and the British Virgin Islands Indigenous Networks  Janet Fiskio, Oberlin College, Mapping a Haunted Landscape: 2O. Earthen Archives: Ecocritical Theory and Textual Studies Memory and Resistance in Simon Ortiz’s Fight Back Stream: Green/Theory FRASER 111  Kirsten Vinyeta, University of Oregon, Community Photography Chair: Michael P. Branch, University of Nevada, Reno as a Tool to Address Climate Change Impacts Affecting the Coquille Indian Tribe's Sovereignty and Culture  Kent Ryden, University of Southern Maine, Linguistic Bioregionalism: An Ecocritical Reading of the Linguistic Atlas of  Christopher Paul Bindel, Coconino Community College / Grand New England Canyon Trust, The Painted Desert Project: Street-art and Environmental Justice Alliances on the Colorado Plateau  Mark Sturges, Pennsylvania State University, Crevecoeur's Botan- ical Trunk: The Textual Remains of Letters from an American

Farmer 2K. Twentieth-Century Literary Urbanism Stream: Gender, Race, Justice  Andrew Husband, Texas Tech University, Gretel Ehrlich’s First FRASER 208 Summer in the Sierra: Ecotextual Criticism and Affects Chair: Amy T. Hamilton, Northern Michigan University  Jill Hampton, University of South Carolina-Aiken, Gretel Ehrlich:  Robert M. Myers, Lock Haven University, Managing Migrations: from the Archives to the Printed Page Progressivism, Ecology, and Crane’s Maggie  Jill Gatlin, New England Conservatory, Sublime and Sordid Smoke: 2P. Roundtable: Geezer Poets: Voices of Elders The Aesthetic and Moral Reconciliation of Pollution and Stream: Nature Writing and Ecopoetics Progress in Turn-of-the-Century U.S. Fiction FRASER 214 Chair: Jim Warren, Washington and Lee University  Nathan Mickelson, The New Community College, CUNY, Charles Olson's Topography and Some Contradictions of Urban Renewal  Jim Warren, Washington and Lee University, W. S. Merwin  Laird Christensen, Green Mountain College, Wendell Berry 2L. Race, Gender, Garden, Region  Bernard Quetchenbach, Montana State University, Billings, Gary Stream: Gender, Race, Justice Snyder FRASER 113  John Tallmadge, Wandering Scholar, Gary Snyder Chair: Rhona McAdam  Mark Long, Keene State College, Mary Oliver & Maxine Kumin  Yeonhaun Kang, University of Florida, Rethinking “the American Garden”: Native American Gardening, Place, and Environmental Imagination in Leslie Marmon Silko’s Gardens in the Dunes

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2Q. Paper Jam: Environmental Science Fiction and Changed 2T. Wandering Weeds/Floating Seeds: Thoughts on Plant Nature (Sponsored by the Science Fiction Research Migrations Association) Stream: Species and Food Stream: Nature Writing and Ecopoetics FRASER 119 SPOONER HALL, THE COMMONS Chair: Anne-Lise Francois, University of California, Berkeley Chair: Robert Boschman, Mount Royal University  Anne-Lise Francois, University of California, Berkeley, “The Loves  Robert Boschman, Mount Royal University, "Beginning to think in of the Plants”: Reading Romantic Botany in an Age of Colony some necessary ways”: Crossing Carbon Boundaries and Full Collapse Cost Accounting in Kim Stanley Robinson and Paolo Bacigalupi  Juliana Chow & Gillian Osborne, University of California Berkeley,  Rebecca Phillips, West Virginia University at Parkersburg, "They California in New England: Eschscholzia Californica (common Meant No Harm": Environmental and Social Disruption in Mary name: California Poppy) in Emily Dickinson and Celia Thaxter Doria Russell's Rakhat Novels  Michael C. Cohen, University of California Los Angeles, Bad Seeds  Diana Leong, University of California, Irvine, An Ecology of Objects: Ecopessimism and Beasts of the Southern Wild  Everett Hamner, Western Illinois University, From Cell to Planet: Synthetic Biology, Human Animals, and Social Justice in Kim Session 3: 3:30 - 5 pm Stanley Robinson’s 2312  Stephen Siperstein, University of Oregon, Octavia Butler, 3A. Inadvertent Environmentalisms: Changing Nature by Ecological Limits, and the Age of Empathy Accident  Shane Donnelly Hall, University of Oregon, Cloud Atlas and the Stream: Affect, Change, Loss Textual Apocalypse FRASER 113 Chair: Sarah Weiger, University of Portland  Anthony Lioi, The Juilliard School, Ecocriticism X: Hybrid Reality and the Ethos of Science Fiction  Sarah Weiger, University of Portland, Accident and the Evolution of Romantic Natural History

2R. Indigenous Environmentalisms in Postcolonial African  Julie Joosten, “Glittering Idly”: Wordsworthian Gratuitousness Literature II  Sarah Ensor, Portland State University, Rachel Carson and the Stream: Postcolonial and Transnational Environments Politics of Reluctance FRASER 123 Chair: Chengyi Coral Wu, University of Nevada, Reno 3B. Atwood and Others at the End of the World  Joshua Williams, University of California, Berkeley, Stream: Affect, Change, Loss ECO-INSURGENCY: Land, Freedom, and Peasant Revolution in FRASER 123 East African Performance and Film Chair: Adele Tiengo, State University of Milan  Weeraya Donsomsakulkij, Bayreuth International Graduate  Cheryl Lousley, Lakehead University, Climate Change and Global School of African Studies (BIGSAS), University of Bayreuth, The Exotica: The Politics of Mimicry and Mutation in Larissa Lai’s Presencing of the Physical World in Bessie Head’s When Rain Salt Fish Girl and Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake and Year Clouds Gather: A Topopoetic Reading of the Flood  Chibuzo Asomugha, Federal Polytechnic, Nigeria, Oil Induced  Adele Tiengo, State University of Milan, The Legacy of the Last Internal Displacement in Modern Nigerian Literature Men: Narrations on Catastrophes and Ecophobia  Tonia L. Payne, Nassau Community College-SUNY, Profits or 2S. Transnational Urban Ecocriticism Prophets: Margaret Atwood’s Dystopian Satires Stream: Postcolonial and Transnational Environments FRASER 112 3C. Ecomusicologies in Canada: Sonic Narratives, Chair: Ursula Heise, University of California, Los Angeles Imaginings, and Representation  Hans-Georg Erney, Armstrong Atlantic State University, Stream: Beyond Words Maximum Cities, Minimum Villages, and Urban Ecocriticism in FRASER 222 Postcolonial Literature Chair: Kate Galloway, Memorial University  William V. Lombardi, University of Nevada, Reno, "Unequal  Kate Galloway, Memorial University, Sounding the Environmental Burdens": An Outline for Postlocal Ecocriticism and Notes on Past and Present: Repurposing and Representing Soundscape in the Location of Ecosocial Justice Contemporary Canadian Compositions  Annie Lowe, University of Kansas, The Polarization of Arundhati  Erin Elizabeth Scheffer, University of Toronto, Between Roy: North-South, East-West Classifying and Romanticism: Musically Imagining Indigenous Canadians in 1940s CBC Radio Drama  Jeremy Strachan, University of Toronto, Sounding Empire: Coloniality and Environment in Canadian Art Music

Wednesday, May 29

3D. Images of Nature and the Nature of Images 3I. Sense of Nature and Ecopedagogical Design in Swedish Stream: Beyond Words and German Children's Literature SMITH 100 Stream: Ecopedagogy Chair: Sidney I. Dobrin, University of Florida FRASER 223  Sean Morey, Clemson University, Econography Chair: Sture Packalén, Mälardalen University  Sidney I. Dobrin, University of Florida, Fiat Lux  Sture Packalén, Mälardalen University, Elsa Beskow and the Nordic View of Nature  Lauren Woolbright, Clemson University, Players Gone Wild: World of Warcraft’s Ecological Ethics  Magnus Jansson, Malardalen University, The Wonderful Adventures of Nils – the Educational Potential of Storytelling

3E. Kansas Rivers: Polluted and Poetic  Karin Molander Danielsson, Mälardalen University, Fantasy and Stream: Creative Writing Eco-pedagogy in Swedish Children’s Literature from the 20th SPOONER HALL, THE COMMONS Century Chair: Elizabeth Schultz, University of Kansas  Marie Öhman, Mälardalen University, Environmentalist Positions  Laura Calwell, Friends of the Kaw, The Kansas River: A Prairie- in Astrid Lindgren’s Ronja the Robber’s Daughter Based River System  Kristin Van Tassel, Bethany College, City River: Where the Wild 3J. Histories of Slavery and the Nature of Resistance Things Are Stream: Gender, Race, Justice FRASER 107  Lisa Grossman, Painting the Kansas River  Joan Stone, University of Kansas, Bends of the Kaw: A River Dance  Marnie McInnes, DePauw University, Literary Habitats: The Case  Heidi Mehl, Kansas State University, Sand-Dredging the Kansas of Haiti River  Barbara Eckstein, University of Iowa, In a Borrowed Canoe: The  Elizabeth Schultz, University of Kansas, Kansas Rivers: Polluted Extramodern Mississippi River Journey of Eddy L. Harris and Poetic  Liz Hutter, University of Minnesota / Metropolitan State University, “Plunged in a Watery Grave”: Elegiac Reverie for 3F. Belles of the Southern Wild Drowned Slaves Stream: Creative Writing

SMITH 107 3K. Pathographies Chair and Respondent: Ann Fisher-Wirth, University of Mississippi Stream: Gender, Race, Justice  Abigail C. Greenbaum, Berry College, Taking the Wild Out FRASER 106  Anna Lena Phillips, American Scientist, Names for the Land: Chair: Sean Farrell, University of Texas at Arlington Toward a Subjective Southern Ecopoetics  Veronica Vold, University of Oregon, Mapping Cancer: Locating  Catherine Meeks, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, The Environmental Risk in Graphic Cancer Narratives Only House  Arlene Plevin, Olympic College, (Re)Forming the Body in Science: Body Burdens and the Changing Power of Narrative 3G. The New Nature Writing  Hanna Straß, Ludwig-Maximilian-Universität, A Postcolonial Stream: Creative Writing Reading of Environmental Illness Narratives: Kiana Davenport's SMITH 108 House of Many Gods and Indra Sinha's Animal's People Chair: John M. Gist, Western New Mexico University  Richard Kerridge, Bath Spa University, Cold Blood 3L. Indigenous Identity and Hybridity  John M. Gist, Western New Mexico University, Reflections of a Stream: Gender, Race, Justice Book Burner FRASER 112  Stella Capek, Hendrix College, Buttons in the River Chair: Martina Sciolino, University of Southern Mississippi  Martina Sciolino, University of Southern Mississippi, Transhuman 3H. Graduate Student Special Session: Topographies of Intersubjectivity, Indigenous Medicine and the New Commons: Linda Hogan’s Book of Medicine Professionalization II: Early Career Planning Stream: Ecopedagogy  David L. Moore, University of Montana, “the cranky one”: D’Arcy SABATINI MULTICULTURAL RESOURCE CENTER McNickle’s Looking-Glass for the White Man Chair: Andrew Husband, Texas Tech University  Linda Helstern, North Dakota State University, Mixing Oil and Panelists: Andrew Husband, Texas Tech University Water: Visions of Sovereignty in Eric Gansworth's Smoke Tom J. Hillard, Boise State University Dancing Kerry Fine, Texas Tech University  Desiree Hellegers, Center for Social and Environmental Justice, Susan N. Maher, University of Minnesota Duluth Washington State University Vancouver, From "Poisson Road to Poison Road": Mapping Capital in Linda Hogan’s Solar Storms

Wednesday, May 29

3M. Ecocriticism and Latin America 3P. Pastoral for the 21st Century Stream: Geographies Stream: Nature Writing and Ecopoetics FRASER 119 FRASER 124 Chair: Scott Slovic, University of Idaho Chair: Tana Jean Welch, Florida State University  Scott DeVries, Bethel College, Lost: Ecological Literature from  Matthew M. Low, Creighton University, “What sweet descriptions Outside the Spanish American Canon bards disdain to sing”: The Post-Pastoral Folk of John Clare and  Roberto J. Forns-Broggi, Metropolitan State University of William Elliott Whitmore Denver, How Different and Necessary is Ecocriticism in Latin  Lauren Brozovich, Harvard University, Climate Change, the Elegiac America? Potential of Tropes, and Contemporary Pastoral in Jorie  Zelia M. Bora, University Federal of Paraíba, Globalization, Graham’s Sea Change Margins and Nature in Brazilian Literature  Tana Jean Welch, Florida State University, “More Like Us than  Mac J. Wilson, Rutgers University, Seeing through Slash and Burn: We’d Allow”: D.A. Powell’s Posthuman Pastoral Agriculture, Landscape, and Ecology in Juan L. Ortiz’s “Ah, miras al presente” 3Q. Disruptions in Early American Literature  Jeremy G. Larochelle, University of Mary Washington, From Stream: Nature Writing and Ecopoetics Redemptive Waters to Dying Lakes and Rivers: Ecological Loss FRASER 208 and Interconnectedness in Recent Amazonian Poetry Chair: Teresa Coronado, University of Wisconsin-Parkside  Matthew Wynn Sivils, Iowa State University, James Fenimore 3N. Minding the Climate: Interdisciplinary Perceptions of Cooper's The Crater and the Epistemology of Natural Disaster Nature’s Agency in Embodied Experiences, Narrative  Amy T. Hamilton, Northern Michigan University, Whitman, Formations, and Public Policy Nature, and the Urban Stream: Green/Theory  Teresa Coronado, University of Wisconsin-Parkside, “The familiar FRASER 212 name of Hermaphrodites”: James Fenimore Cooper’s The Water Chairs: Michael A. Phillips, Illinois Valley Community College, and Lisa Witch, Nationhood, and the Pastoral L. Phillips, Illinois State University  Lisa L. Phillips, Illinois State University, The Salton Sea Smells: A 3R. Missing Links, Mutant Bunnies, and Militant “Whether” Phenomenon Labradoodles: Connecting Human and Animal through  Megan Gregory, Illinois State University, A Force of Nature: Speculative Fiction Reimagining Relations Through Chaucer’s The Parliament of Stream: Species and Food Fowles FRASER 122 Chair: Christy Tidwell, South Dakota School of Mines & Technology  Bridgitte Barclay, Aurora University, Circus or Science?: Eden,  Michael A. Phillips, Illinois Valley Community College, Evolution, and Akeley’s Influence in Two Early SF Films Environmental Migrations Around DePue, Illinois  Nathaniel Williams, University of California, Davis, Reimagining Twain's Talking-Dog Sentimentalism in 21st-Century Science 3O. Graveyards and Necroregions Fiction Stream: Green/Theory  Christy Tidwell, South Dakota School of Mines & Technology, FRASER 117 Rabbits and Lizards and Frogs, Oh My!: The Threat of Chair: Troy Boone, University of Pittsburgh Non-Predatory Animals in 1970s Creature Features  Jesse Oak Taylor, University of Maryland-College Park, Fossilized: After Life After Death 3S. On the Wings of the Butterfly, Moth, and Firefly: Art,  Eleanor Gold, SUNY Buffalo, “I Have Made Your Bed at the Foot of Technology, and Nature the Hill”: Sara Baartman and an Ecopolitics of Interment Stream: Species and Food  Christian Hummelsund Voie, Mid Sweden University, Out there FRASER 111 and within: Nature Writing Discovers the Necroregion Chair: Jeanne Dubino, Appalachian State University  Andrew J. Smyth, Southern Connecticut State University, Who Built that Garden? Putting the Insects to Work in Edmund Spenser’s “Muiopotmos”

 Jeanne Dubino, Appalachian State University, The Death of a Moth and the Zap of a Firefly: The Lyrical Meets the Technological

 Ziba Rashidian, Southeastern Louisiana University, On the Wings of a Butterfly: Bioethics and Bio-Art in Atwood, Nabokov, and Menzes

Wednesday, May 29

3T. Paper Jam: Blue Sheep and Other Oddities Stream: Species and Food FRASER 214 Chair: Justin Lerberg, University of Texas at Arlington  Justin Lerberg, University of Texas at Arlington, Black, Red, Green: Anti-life and Colorful Migrations in DC Comics’ Animal Man and Swamp Thing  Jason Hertz, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, On the Trail of Blue Sheep and Snow Leopards: Peter Matthiessen’s and George Schaller’s Biocentric Travel Writing  Robert Lipscomb, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, The Queering of Richard Parker  Melinda Linscott, Idaho State University, Knowing the Subject in the Exeter Riddles: Wuhte, Swift, and Wiga  Matthew Lerberg, University of Texas at Arlington, Convergence of Aesthetics and Ethics from a Posthuman Perspective

Plenary Session 2: 5:30 - 7 pm

The Past, Present, and Future of Big Oil Ballroom, Kansas Memorial Union

Antonia Juhasz is a leading oil and energy expert. She is a Fellow of the Investigative Reporting Program at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism where her works focuses on oil, natural gas and the Afghanistan war. Juhasz is the author of three books: Black Tide: the Devastating Impact of the Gulf Oil Spill (2011), The Tyranny of Oil (2008), and The Bush Agenda (2006). Her work has appeared in numerous publications, including The Atlantic, Harper’s Mag- azine, CNN.com, the New York Times, International Herald Tribune, Los Angeles Times, Miami Herald, The Nation, and Tikkun. Juhasz is a frequent media commentator. She founded the En- ergy Program at Global Exchange, a San Francisco-based human rights non-profit organization, and directed the program from July 2009 to July 2011. Juhasz is an associate fellow with the Institute for Policy Studies and a senior policy analyst for Foreign Policy In Focus.

Refreshments will be available to tide you over till dinner

Dinner On Your Own: 7 - 8:30 pm

Reception: 8:30 – 10 pm Graduate Student and International Receptions Adams Alumni Center

This joint reception to honor the graduate students and international attendees at the ASLE Conference is OPEN TO ALL. Please come greet and celebrate these important members of our organization. There will be a short program at 9:00pm.

Light appetizers and desserts are provided, with a cash bar.

Thursday, May 30

Session 4: 8:30 - 10 am 4E. Roundtable: Crafting Sustainable Teaching Practices: Respecting and Relying on the Eco-System 4A. McCarthy and Atwood: Endings Stream: Ecopedagogy Stream: Affect, Change, Loss FRASER 223 FRASER 212 Chairs: Jody Cohen and Anne Dalke, Bryn Mawr College Chair: Tonia L. Payne, Nassau Community College-SUNY Panelists: Jody Cohen, Bryn Mawr College  Rolando Rubalcava, California State Universtiy, Northridge, Grey Anne Dalke, Bryn Mawr College in a Changing World: An Environmentalist Critique of Cormac Sophia Abbot, Bryn Mawr College McCarthy's Post-Apocalyptic Earth in The Road Chandrea Peng, Bryn Mawr College

 Louise Squire, University of Surrey, The Post-Mortal Posthuman: Life, Death and Paradox in an Environmental Crisis World 4F. Fighting Fossil Fuels Stream: Gender, Race, Justice  Laura Wright, Western Carolina University, Vegans of the FRASER 214 Ecopocalypse: McCarthy’s The Road and Atwood’s Year of the Chair: Creighton Nicholas Brown, University of Kansas Flood  Jon Gordon, University of Alberta, Irrational Oil: Ducks, Bitumen, Satire 4B. Film Eco-Horror: Bugs, Blood, and Birds  Patricia H. Audette-Longo, Concordia University, Indigenous Stream: Beyond Words SABATINI MULTICULTURAL RESOURCE CENTER Discourses in Tar Sands Advocacy: Where do Canada’s First Chairs: Carter Soles, The College at Brockport (SUNY), and Stephen Peoples Fit Against the Backdrop of Keystone XL Rust, University of Oregon  Terre Ryan, Loyola University Maryland, Dead Worker Heroes and Disastrous Energy Discourse  Carter Soles, The College at Brockport (SUNY), The Nature of Environmental Apocalypse in The Birds and Night of the Living Dead 4G. Slavery, Reconstruction, Ecocriticism  Joseph K. Heumann, Eastern Illinois University, Cockroach Movies Stream: Gender, Race, Justice and the Sometimes Mad Scientist FRASER 106 Chair: Britt Rusert, University of Massachusetts Amherst  Stephen Rust, University of Oregon, Postmodernism and the Eco-Horror Film  Matthew Bruen, New York University, His Own Dear Native Soil: Frederick Douglass, Postbellum Migration, and the Emergence of  Robin L. Murray, Eastern Illinois University, Cockroach Vampire an African-American Land Ethic Horror: The Case of Cronos  Benjamin Child, University of Mississippi, Strange Vicissitudes: Southern Ecologies and Black Agrarianism during the Nadir 4C. Data  Jamie Bolker, Fordham University, The Problem of Racial Pests: Stream: Beyond Words SPOONER HALL, THE COMMONS (Jim) Crows in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Dred: A Tale of the Great Chair: Simon Estok, Sungkyunkwan University Dismal Swamp

 Juliette Lapeyrouse-Cherry, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, The Rhetoric of Biopiracy in the GE Seed Debate 4H. Ecocriticism and Geocriticism: Overlapping Territories and Cross-Border Migrations  Ursula K. Heise, University of California, Los Angeles, Ecological Stream: Geographies Epic: Databases, Conservation, and the Imagination of the Future FRASER 124  Heather Houser, University of Texas at Austin, Visualization Chair: Christine M. Battista, Johnson and Wales University Aesthetics and Environmental Ethics  Christine M. Battista, Johnson and Wales University, Border Ecologies and Transformative Bodies: Mapping a Feminist 4D. Todos Somos Migrantes Ambientales: Writing Place in a Geography in Linda Hogan’s Solar Storms Time of Ecological Displacement  Stephanie Posthumus, McGill University, Mapping Cultural Stream: Creative Writing Differences: Géocritique and Ecocriticism FRASER 225  Judith Rauscher, University of Bamberg, Place and Displacement Chair: Marisol Cortez, Esperanza Peace and Justice in Contemporary Transnational American Poetry  Jessica Weatherford, University of Kansas, “If It Wasn’t for the

Wabash River": Meditations on What It Means to Say Home

 Marisol Cortez, Esperanza Peace and Justice, Luz At Midnight: Readings from a Novel in Progress  Kamala J. Platt, Meadlowlark Center, Poems of Earth Crises

Thursday, May 30

4I. Landscape With Waterslide: Leisure Spaces and the 4M. Writing the Americas: Audubon and Darwin Environment Stream: Nature Writing and Ecopoetics Stream: Geographies FRASER 117 FRASER 123 Chair: Eric Russell, University of Missouri-Columbia Chair: Daniel Spoth, Eckerd College  Eric Russell, University of Missouri-Columbia, Presenting America:  Daniel Spoth, Eckerd College, Reading the Beach: Literary Visions John James Audubon's Ornithological Biography, Volume I of Leisurely Space  Daniel Patterson, Central Michigan University, The Forgotten  Lindsay Dunne Jacoby, University of Maryland-College Park, Western Journals of John James Audubon and Their Implications Preserving an Experience: The Campaign for Voyageurs National for His Conservationist Legacy Park  Noah Heringman, University of Missouri-Columbia, Darwin, Tierra  Amanda Hagood, Hendrix College, Wrestling the Leviathan: del Fuego, and the longue durée of Transatlantic Natural History Nature, Leisure, and the Landscape of South Florida in Karen Russell's Swamplandia! 4N. Thoreau and the Borderlands of Science, Literature, and  Rachel Paparone, University of Georgia, (De)Constructing Nature: Language (Sponsored by the Thoreau Society) Environmental Conservation and Dystopia in J. C. Rufin's Stream: Nature Writing and Ecopoetics Globalia SMITH 108 Chair: Francois Specq, Ècole Normale Supérieure de Lyon 4J. From Ecocriticism and Environmental History to the  William Rossi, University of Oregon, Thoreau, Natural Knowledge, Environmental (Post-)Humanities: Mapping Common and the Language of Nature Ground  Francois Specq, Ècole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, Westward Stream: Green/Theory Migration and Poetic Borderlands in Thoreau’s “Walking” SMITH 100  Laura Dassow Walls, University of Notre Dame, From Philosophy Chair: Hannes Bergthaller, National Chung-Hsing University to Poetry: Thoreau's Flute and the Laughter of the Loon  Agnes Kneitz, Rachel Carson Center, “As if the river was not meat and drink to you!”: Social Novels as a Means of Framing 19th 4O. Postcolonial Ecocriticism: Symbiotic Shifting of Self, Century European Environmental Justice Shelters, and System  Dana Phillips, Towson University/Rhodes University, Stream: Postcolonial and Transnational Environments Posthumanism, Environmental History, and Narratives of FRASER 119 “Collapse” Chair: Sarah Lewis Mitchem, University of Florida  Adeline Johns-Putra, University of Surrey, Reading Climate  Arnaud Barras, University of Geneva, Ecosystem of Change Historically: Eleanor Anne Porden’s Arctic Expeditions Transformation: Migration, Borders and Environmentalism in  Hannes Bergthaller, National Chung-Hsing University, “No More Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide Eternal than the Hills of the Poets”: Ecocriticism, Environmental  Sarah Lewis Mitchem, University of Florida, What Are We Else?: History, and the Shifting Grounds of Moral Authority in Silent Forming a Neuro-cosmopolitan Perspective to Adapt Personal Spring and National Identities  April Anson, University of Oregon, Little Shelter, Big Questions: An 4K. We Are Legion: Microscopic Life Insider’s Critique of the Rhetoric and Philosophies of the Tiny Stream: Green/Theory House Movement FRASER 122

Chair: Andrew B. Ross, University of Nevada, Reno 4P. Postcolonial Environmental Criticism: Towards a  Sean Farrell, University of Texas at Arlington, Animating Art: Transnational Turn in Environment Toward a New Materialist Understanding of Bioart and Agency Stream: Postcolonial and Transnational Environments  Maya L. Kapoor, University of Arizona, The Slowness of Our Eyes: FRASER 111 A Creative Nonfiction Look at Life Through a Microscope Chair: Arun Kumar Pokhrel, University of Florida, Gainesville  Andrew B. Ross, University of Nevada, Reno, On Bodies and  Arun Kumar Pokhrel, University of Florida, Gainesville, History and Archives Story-telling: The Environmental Poetics and the Materiality of the Environment in George Mackay Brown’s Greenvoe 4L. The Language of Objects  Arjun P. Poudel, Northeastern University, Return to the Common/ Stream: Green/Theory Commons FRASER 107  Robert Drury King, Sierra Nevada College / Free University of Chair: Gareth Farmer, University of Bedfordshire Brussels, The Entropy of Decolonization: Systems Analysis of  Jennifer Ladino, University of Idaho, “They had no choice”: Decolonization Processes in the International Political Economy Agency, Affect and Materiality at the Animals in War Memorial  Cara Chamberlain, Rocky Mountain College, Turned Back Into Rock: A Reading of Original Poetry  Mandy Bloomfield, University of Bedfordshire, “A constellation of

Thursday, May 30 4Q. Reclaiming Inner and Outer Landscapes in Chicana/o 4S. Consumers, Butchers, and Bird-Watchers: Binding the Environmental Writing Everyday Experiences of Human and Non-Human Life Stream: Postcolonial and Transnational Environments Stream: Species and Food SMITH 107 FRASER 208 Chair: Priscilla Solis Ybarra, University of North Texas Chair: H. Louise Davis, Miami University Ohio  Christina Holmes, DePauw University, Chicana Feminist  H. Louise Davis, Miami University Ohio, Where Have All the Cartographies: Ecological Narratives amidst a Landscape of Whole Grains Gone?: Green Energies, the World Food Crisis, and Misrecognitions Radical NGO Initiatives for Food Aid in the Global South  Christopher Keller, University of Texas-Pan American, “The  Yvonne C. Murphy, SUNY Empire State College, Aviarial struggle has always been inner”: Gloria Anzaldúa’s (Border)Land Migrations and (De)Constructions: Modeling Transcorporeality Images and the (R)evolutionary in the Post Despair Urban Lyric  Priscilla Solis Ybarra, University of North Texas, Decolonizing  Karyn Pilgrim, SUNY Empire State College, Why Did the Chicken Ecocriticism, via Chicana/o Environmental Writing Cross the Road? Contradictions in the Rhetoric of Ethical Eating

4R. Environmental Activism and Activists: Europe and North 4T. Farming, Art, and War: The End of Food and the World America Stream: Species and Food Stream: Postcolonial and Transnational Environments FRASER 112 FRASER 222 Chair: William Major, Hillyer College at University of Hartford Chair: M. Karen Powers, Kent State University at Tuscarawas  William Major, Hillyer College at University of Hartford, Other  M. Karen Powers, Kent State University at Tuscarawas, Working- Kinds of Violence: Wendell Berry and Agrarian Pacifism Class Ecofeminism: Mothers/Wives, Environmental Justice, and  Andrew McMurry, University of Waterloo, Observations on the Public Work of Rhetoric Systems and Hunger  Håkan Sandgren, Kristianstad University, Rhetoric of Containment  Evan Neely, Columbia University, Performing Abundance in the in the Nature Writing of a Political Activist Affluent Society: Performance Art and Ritual Consumption  Rachel Myslivy, University of Kansas, Catholic Sisters and the Seamless Garment of Eco-Justice

Plenary Session 3: 10:30 am - 12 pm

Ballroom, Kansas Memorial Union

Composing Blue Ecologies: Science, Aesthetics, and Animal Studies in the Abyss Stacy Alaimo is Professor of English and Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Arlington. She has published widely in the environmental humanities, science studies, and feminist theory on such diverse subjects as environmental literature and film, environmental art and architecture, activist performance art, environmental pedagogy, gender and climate change, "queer" animals, and ocean conservation. She currently serves on the MLA Division of Literature and Science and is the new editor of the "Critical Ecologies" stream of the Electronic Book Review. Her publications include Undomesticated Ground: Recasting Nature as Feminist Space (Cornell UP 2000); Material Feminisms, edited with Susan J. Hekman (Indiana UP 2008); and Bodily Natures: Science, Environment, and the Material Self (Indiana UP 2010). Bodily Natures won the ASLE Award for Ecocriticism in 2011.

Humans, Animals, and Recent Biopolitical Thought Cary Wolfe is the Bruce and Elizabeth Dunlevie Professor of English and Director of the new 3CT: Center for Critical and Cultural Theory at Rice University. His books include Animal Rites: American Culture, The Discourse of Species, and Posthumanist Theory (Chicago UP 2003), What Is Posthuman- ism? (Minnesota UP 2010), and Before the Law: Humans and Other Animals in a Biopolitical Frame (Chicago UP, forthcoming 2012). Edited collections include Zoontologies: The Question of the Ani- mal (Minnesota UP 2003) and (with Branka Arsic) The Other Emerson (Minnesota UP 2010). He has also participated in two recent multi-authored collections: Philosophy and Animal Life (Columbia UP 2008), and The Death of the Animal: A Dialogue (Columbia UP 2009). He is founding editor of the series Posthumanities at the University of Minnesota Press, and currently working on a book project to be called Wallace Stevens' Birds: The Poetics of Extinction.

Thursday, May 30

Lunch: 12 - 1:30 pm

Diversity Caucus Meeting 12:30-1:30 pm, bring a brown bag lunch SMITH 100 Grab a sandwich or salad and then join the meeting. The Diversity Caucus is a group in ASLE devoted to exploring environmental and social justice issues; addressing the intersections of race, class, gender, sexuality, and nature; and fostering the relationships between disciplines, communities, and activists. Facilitated by ASLE Diversity Coordinator Salma Monani.

Session 5: 1:30 - 3 pm 5D. Home and Away: Writing the Literary Landscape Stream: Creative Writing 5A. Science Fiction and Climate Change FRASER 223 Stream: Affect, Change, Loss Chair: Suzanne Roberts, Lake Tahoe Community College / Sierra FRASER 122 Nevada College Chair: Anthony Lioi, The Juilliard School  Suzanne Roberts, Lake Tahoe Community College / Sierra Nevada  Lauren Yero, University of Nevada, Reno, Fiction Needs No College, The Three Wise Women: Confronting Issues of Gender Permit: Reimagining the Ruin through Postapocalyptic Narrative on the John Muir Trail  Andrew M. Rose, University of Washington, Climate Change,  Chris Robertson, University of Nevada, Reno, Anatomy of a Geo-Engineering and the "Passionate Scientist" in Robinson’s Highway: On Animal Migration, Road Kill, and the Intractable Science in the Capital Trilogy Nature of Borders  Antonia Mehnert, Rachel Carson Center, Munich University, From  Jennifer Hughes Westerman, Appalachian State University, The Roots to Routes: Riskscapes in Climate Change Fiction Limits of Hope

5B. Art and Eco-Activism 5E. Migrations to the Metropolis Stream: Beyond Words Stream: Creative Writing FRASER 123 FRASER 222 Chair: TBA Chair: Douglas Haynes, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh  Vera Coleman, Arizona State University, Emergent Rhizomes:  James Barilla, University of South Carolina, Endangered, Invasive, Posthumanism and Embodied Environmental Ethics in the Urban Participatory Art of Ala Plástica  Jim Fairhall, DePaul University, Missing Nature: The Nguyen  Jennifer A. Wagner-Lawlor, Penn State University, “Plastics are Family and Rural Migration to Cities in Vietnam all washed up”: Art, Advocacy, and the Plastic Pollution Crisis  Douglas Haynes, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, Another Day's Work: New Urbanites in Central America's Largest Market 5C. The Spirit of Ethics in Wendell Berry Stream: Beyond Words 5F. Roundtable: Race and Nature in the 19th-Century United FRASER 225 States Chair: Jeremy Elliott, Abilene Christian University Stream: Gender, Race, Justice  Ethan Mannon, The Pennsylvania State University, Burley SMITH 108 Coulter's Degradation: Living the Limits of Agriculture in Chair: Lance Newman, Westminster College Wendell Berry's Fiction Panelists: Joshua Bennett, Princeton University  Josh A. Weinstein, Virginia Wesleyan College, Wendell Berry’s Brigitte Nicole Fielder, University of Wisconsin Sabbath Poems and Psalms: Rural Praises from the Land James Finley, University of New Hampshire Ian Finseth, University of North Texas  Rob Porter and Brenda Porter, Western Illinois University, Jennifer C. James, George Washington University “Agresistance” to Agribusiness: A Comparison of Wendell Lance Newman, Westminster College Berry’s Fidelity to a Community Garden Britt Rusert, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Thursday, May 30

5G. Denaturalizing Landscapes in American Indian Texts 5K. NaturalCultural Alliances: Material Ecocriticism and the Stream: Gender, Race, Justice Blurred Boundaries of Matter and Text FRASER 106 Stream: Green/Theory Chair: Lisa Tatonetti, Kansas State University SMITH 100  Maureen Konkle, University of Missouri-Columbia, Jane Chair: Jeffrey J. Cohen, George Washington University Schoolcraft's “Castle Island”: A Brief History of Colonialism in  Heather I. Sullivan, Trinity University, From Faust to Fracking: Michigan, c. 1838 Material Ecocriticism and the Ecologies of Energy  Stephanie Fitzgerald, University of Kansas,  Greta C. Gaard, University of Wisconsin-River Falls, The Agency of Fireworks  Lisa Tatonetti, Kansas State University, Changing Landscapes &  Serenella Iovino, University of Turin, Reading (Absent) Bodies: Queer Migrations in American Indian Literatures Pompeii’s Casts, Material Narratives, and the Changing Memory of Nature 5H. Violence, Materialism, and Imperialism in Latin  Serpil Oppermann, Hacettepe University, NaturalCultural Stories American Environments of Compound Individuals Stream: Gender, Race, Justice FRASER 117 5L. Materializing Kinship Chair: Timothy Gilmore, University of California, Santa Barbara Stream: Green/Theory  Timothy Gilmore, University of California, Santa Barbara, The Last FRASER 111 Man in the Wild: The Failings of Yankee Ingenuity in The Chair: Kristin Girten, University of Nebraska Omaha Mosquito Coast  Kristin Girten, University of Nebraska Omaha, The Ontology of  George English Brooks, Snow College, Guns, Maize, and Mud: Kinship and the Aesthetics of Touch Strategic Animisms and Material Agencies in Latin American  Devin Garofalo, University of Wisconsin-Madison, "The Mermaids Fiction in the Basement": Emily Dickinson and a New Materialist Theory  of Kinship  Allison Dushane, University of Arizona, Humanist Fantasy and

Materialist Ontology in Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go  Michele Marie Desmarais, University of Nebraska Omaha, 5I. Ecocriticism and Chinese Culture Sweetgrass: Placing Voice Stream: Geographies

FRASER 214 Chair: Scott Slovic, University of Idaho 5M. Crossing Lines, Revising Lines: An Ecopoetry Anthology  Liu, Bei, Shandong Normal University, On Zhang Wei’s Sense of Reading of the Process of Re/Writing Place and its Contemporary Cultural Significance Stream: Nature Writing and Ecopoetics FRASER 119  Kiu-wai Chu, University of Hong Kong / University of Idaho, Neon- Chair: Ann Fisher-Wirth, University of Mississippi Greening New Landscapes in Contemporary Chinese Art: From Daoist Ecology to Eco-materialism Panelists: Ann Fisher-Wirth, University of Mississippi Thorpe Moeckel, Hollins University  Xinmin D. Liu, Washington State University, Emotive Intervention Sheryl St. Germain, Chatham University in “Documenting” China’s Manufactured Landscapes Laura-Gray Street, Randolph College  Song, Lili, Tsinghua University, On the Pathos of Chinese Jonathan Skinner, University of Warwick Environmental Writings 5N. Transatlantic Early Modern Ecocriticism 5J. Big Sky Country: Takin' it to the Limit in the Central Stream: Nature Writing and Ecopoetics Flyway FRASER 212 Stream: Geographies Chair: Ann Martinez, University of Kansas FRASER 124  Christopher Foley, University of California, Santa Barbara, “[G]ods Chair: Matthew Pullen, South Dakota State University sent not / Corn for rich men only": Interrogating the Socio-  Katie Meiners, Minnesota State University Moorhead, Hawk Environmental Causes of Famine in Shakespeare’s Coriolanus Watch  Katherine Gillen, Texas A&M-San Antonio, Capitalist Conversions:  Matthew Pullen, South Dakota State University, No Brains, No Commoditized Earth in Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus and Headaches: Anti-intellectualism and Environmental Problems Timon of Athens  Brandon R. Baker, Minnesota State University Moorhead,  Joshua Bartlett, University at Albany, "Ah dear New England! Trampling the Common Garden: Secular and Religious Overlap dearest land to me": The Ecological Impulse of Michael in the Creation of Ecological Crisis Wigglesworth's "God's Controversy with New-England"

Thursday, May 30

5O. Postcolonial Nature and Nationalism 5Q. Postcolonial Dogs Stream: Postcolonial and Transnational Environments Stream: Species and Food FRASER 112 FRASER 208 Chair: Ali Brox, University of Kansas Chair: Shakti Brazier-Tompkins, University of Saskatchewan  Dulce Abigail Perez Aguilera, Arizona State University, Nahua  Mark Anderson, University of Georgia, The Aesthetics of the Poetry and Cosmopolitics for a Decolonial Dialogue Stray in Latin American Fiction  Kimberly Madsen, College of Southern Idaho, Landscape,  Koichiro Ito, Independent Scholar, The Indigenization of the Environmental In/Justice, and the Dilemma of Nationalism in Pomeranian in Brian Friel’s The Yalta Game Chattopadhyay’s Anandamath and Mistry’s A Fine Balance  Carolina Beltrán, University of California, Los Angeles, Of Fabled  Alan G. Johnson, Idaho State University, The Forest Chronotope Foxes and Vertical Ecology: Andean Cosmovision in José María in Indian Literature Arguedas’s “El zorro de arriba y el zorro de abajo”

5P. New Directions in Food Studies and Ecocriticism Stream: Species and Food SABATINI MULTICULTURAL RESOURCE CENTER Chair: Dan Philippon, University of Minnesota  David B. Goldstein, York University, The oyster is still in my mouth: Ecologies of Eating in M.F.K. Fisher’s The Gastronomical Me  Allison Carruth, University of California, Los Angeles, Locavore Redux: Slow Food and DIY Farming  Dan Philippon, University of Minnesota, Slow Food or Small Food? Learning from Italian Producers

Plenary Session 4: 3:30 - 5 pm

Climate-Induced Migration and the Challenge of Statehood: Defining the Problem, Identifying Solutions Ballroom, Kansas Memorial Union

Maxine Burkett is an Associate Professor of Law at the William S. Richardson School of Law, University of Hawai'i and from 2009-2012 served as the inaugural Director of the Center for Island Climate Adaptation and Policy (ICAP), at the University of Hawai'i. Her courses include Climate Change Law and Policy, Torts, Environmental Law, Race and American Law, and International Development. She has written in the area of race, reparations, and environmental justice. Currently, her work focuses on "Climate Justice," writing on the disparate impact of climate change on vulnerable communities, in the United States and globally. Her March 2007 conference "The Climate of Environmental Justice" at the University of Colorado brought together leading academics, activists, and legal practitioners in the Environmental Justice field to consider the emerging interplay between race, poverty, and global warming.

Thursday, May 30

Interest Group Meetings: 5:30 - 6:30 pm

ASLE is pleased to be able to facilitate the meetings of several interest groups in literature and environment. If Religion and Nature you are interested in the following subjects, please ENGLISH ROOM, KANSAS MEMORIAL UNION consider attending. Meetings are open to all! Ecomedia

JAYHAWK ROOM, KANSAS MEMORIAL UNION Creative Writing and Asian Ecocriticism Ecocriticism and Narrative MALOTT ROOM, KANSAS MEMORIAL UNION KANSAS ROOM, KANSAS MEMORIAL UNION (a separate table space will be designated for each group) Graduate Student Working Group

CENTENNIAL ROOM, KANSAS MEMORIAL UNION ALECC (Association for Literature, Environment and A group of graduate students who seek to organize activi- Culture in Canada) ties at ASLE’s biennial conferences and improve ASLE’s PINE ROOM, KANSAS MEMORIAL UNION programs and publications for fellow students. If you are a graduate student, this is an excellent way to become active in ASLE! Coordinated by ASLE’s Graduate Student Liaisons, Andrew Hageman and Andrew Husband.

Dinner On Your Own: 6:30 - 8 pm

Reception: 8 – 9:30 pm

Authors’ Reception, Co-Sponsored by Orion and Milkweed Editions The Commons, Spooner Hall Meet and greet authors who have published books since the last ASLE conference in 2011. Some books will be available for purchase and signing. Everyone is invited to this ever-popular event! (A list of participating authors is on page 40 of the program.) Welcome by Victor Bailey, Director of the Hall Center at KU. There will be a short program at 8:30pm to acknowledge the winners of the ASLE Book and Paper Awards. Light appetizers and desserts are provided, with an open bar of beer and wine.

Friday, May 31

Session 6: 8:30 - 10 am 6E. Roundtable: Building “The Environmental Humanities” Stream: Ecopedagogy 6A. The Bomb SMITH 100 Stream: Affect, Change, Loss Chair: Stephanie LeMenager, University of California, Santa FRASER 107 Barbara / University of Oregon Chair: Lindsey M. Banco, University of Saskatchewan Panelists: Stacy Alaimo, University of Texas at Arlington  Marjorie C. Allison, Western Illinois University, Playground for Jon Christensen, University of California, Los Angeles Demons: Postcolonial Ecocriticism in Melal Stephanie LeMenager, University of California, Santa Barbara / University of Oregon  Bill D. Toth, Western New Mexico University, Commercial Fiction Paul Outka, University of Kansas as Toxic Discourse Matrix: Martin Cruz Smith's Stallion Gate Catriona Sandilands, York University  Molly Wallace, Queen's University, Ekphrastic Explosions: Writing Jennifer Wenzel, University of Michigan the Bomb 6F. American Studies, Ecocriticism and Citizenship I: New 6B. Ecomusic Directions in Environmental Justice and the Study of the Stream: Beyond Words “Commons” FRASER 106 Stream: Gender, Race, Justice Chair: Ian Marshall, Penn State Altoona SABATINI MULTICULTURAL RESOURCE CENTER  Ian Marshall, Penn State Altoona, “Blisters Heal . . . But Chair: Joni Adamson, Arizona State University Memories Linger On": William O. Douglas, Sigurd Olson, and the  Joni Adamson, Arizona State University, Rethinking American C&O "Canal Song” Studies and the Commons  Mark Allister, St. Olaf College, Music, Emotion, and Environmen-  Hsinya Huang, National Sun Yat-sen University, Toward tal Understanding: The Example of Cloud Cult Trans-Pacific Ecopoetics  Richard Hunt, Potomac State College, The Green in the Blues:  Karen Salt, University of Aberdeen, Caribbean Political Ecology Sense of Place in 20th Century Blues Songs Amidst the Twilight Islands  Kyndra Turner, Arizona State University, Biochemical Engineering 6C. Writing at the Center: A Reading by Contemporary and Environmental Limits and Ethics in Aldous Huxley’s Brave Midwestern Nature Writers New World and Richard Powers's Generosity: An Enhancement Stream: Creative Writing SMITH 107 6G. Migration, Nature, and Narrative: Environmental Justice Chair: John T. Price, University of Nebraska at Omaha Readings of Movement  Tom Montgomery Fate, College of DuPage, Cabin Fever Stream: Gender, Race, Justice  John T. Price, University of Nebraska at Omaha, Daddy Long Legs: FRASER 214 The Natural Education of a Father Chair: David J. Vázquez, University of Oregon  Julene Bair, Where Rivers Run Sand  David J. Vázquez, University of Oregon, Toxicity, Migration, and the Politics of Narration: Imagining Social and Environmental

Justice in Salvador Plascencia’s The People of Paper 6D. Holy Alliances and Fools for Love: Stories from the Land Community  Sarah Wald, Drew University, The Modern Environmental Stream: Creative Writing Movement and the United Farm Workers FRASER 225  Daniel Platt, University of Oregon, “Heal L.A. or Heel L.A.": Karen Chair: Priscilla Stuckey, Prescott College Tei Yamashita’s Tropic of Orange as New Urbanist Critique  Priscilla Stuckey, Prescott College, Kissed by a Fox: And Other  Sarah Jaquette Ray, University of Alaska Southeast, Climate Stories of Friendship in Nature (Counterpoint 2012) Refugees as Ecological Others: Migration, Security, and the  Gail D. Storey, I Promise Not to Suffer: A Fool for Love Hikes the NIMBY Nation Pacific Crest Trail (Mountaineers Books, 2013)  Barbara K. Richardson, Tributary (Torrey House Press, 2012) 6H. Satoyama: Ecology, Gender, and Ideology in the Iconic Landscape of Japan  Ann McCutchan, University of North Texas, River Music: An Stream: Geographies Atchafalaya Story (TAMU Press, 2011) FRASER 223 Chair: John Rippey, The University of Shiga Prefecture

 John Rippey, The University of Shiga Prefecture, Mapping Satoyama: Ecology, Aesthetics, and Academics

 Mayumi Toyosato, Sapporo University, From the Shadow of Satoyama: a Language for Peripheral Landscapes in Japanese Women Writers

 Masami Yuki, Kanazawa University, Satoyama Orientalism: Environmental Dilemma in Contemporary Japan

Friday, May 31

6I. Thinking Continental: Surveying, Exploring, and 6M. Nature at the Edge of Modernity Embracing Macro-Space Stream: Nature Writing and Ecopoetics Stream: Geographies FRASER 212 FRASER 111 Chair: Katherine Gillen, Texas A&M-San Antonio Chair: Susan N. Maher, University of Minnesota Duluth  Ann Martinez, University of Kansas, Nanesmannesland:  Tom Lynch, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Continental No-man’s-land, Monstrous Boundaries and the Figure of the Traverses, Whitefella Dreamings, and the Settler-Colonial Hybrid in Beowulf Imaginary of Place  Kristin Bovaird-Abbo, University of Northern Colorado,  Susan N. Maher, University of Minnesota Duluth, Superior's St. Guthlac: Wasteland Warden Waters: Re-envisioning the Continental Interior of North  Elizabeth Gruber, Lock Haven University, Elegizing the America Cosmopolis: Chthonian Justice in Arden of Faversham  O. Alan Weltzien, University of Montana Western, Literary  Brandon Jones, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Mapping of the Northwest Corner (De)Signing the Modern Constitution: Demon Phenomenology  Fabiana Dimpflmeier, University of Rome 'La Sapienza', Italian and Metamorphosis in Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus Gazing: Lands and Men in the Eyes of a Continental Mariner 6N. Natures of Empire I: Postcolonial Ecocriticism and the 6J. Reading the Environment in(to) the Archive: A Environmental Humanities Roundtable Discussion Stream: Postcolonial and Transnational Environments Stream: Green/Theory SPOONER HALL, THE COMMONS FRASER 122 Chair: Byron Caminero-Santangelo, University of Kansas Chairs: Lauren E. LaFauci, Simpson College, and Rochelle Johnson, Panelists: Byron Caminero-Santangelo, University of Kansas The College of Idaho Anthony Carrigan, Keele University Panelists: Tina Gianquitto, Colorado School of Mines Graham Huggan, University of Leeds Annie Merrill Ingram, Davidson College Jorge Marcone, Rutgers, The State University Lauren E. LaFauci, Simpson College Rob Nixon, University of Wisconsin-Madison Susie O'Brien, McMaster University 6K. Prosthetic and Posthuman in Contemporary Science Malcolm Sen, University of Notre Dame Fiction Anthony Vital, Transylvania University Stream: Green/Theory FRASER 119 6O. Wolf Politics: Power and Purity Chair: Robert Boschman, Mount Royal University Stream: Species and Food FRASER 208  Pelin Kumbet, Kocaeli University / Hacettepe University, Chair: Michael Lukas, University of Victoria Posthumans as Supplement Prosthetics to Natural Humanbeings: Liminality of Beings in Never Let Me Go  Shakti Brazier-Tompkins, University of Saskatchewan, Turncoats: Wolfish Dogs and Wolf-Dog Hybrids in Sir Charles G. D. Roberts’s  Donna Binns, Eastern Illinois University, The Bionic Woman: Animal Stories Machine or Human?  Michael Lukas, University of Victoria, The Truth about Wolves  Micha Gerrit Philipp Edlich, Johannes Gutenberg University, Concrete, Swamp Thing, and the Posthuman  Ana Isabel Queiroz, Universidade NOVA, Lisbon, Exploring the Iberian Wolf in Portuguese Literature: Changes During the Last

Two Centuries (*co-authored by Margarida Lopes Fernandes and 6L. Not Just Trout Fishing: Richard Brautigan's Environments Filipa Soares) Stream: Nature Writing and Ecopoetics FRASER 222 Chair: Jill E. Anderson, Tennessee State University 6P. Bestiality and Zoophilia Stream: Species and Food  Jill E. Anderson, Tennessee State University, “We’re on a FRASER 123 conveyor belt”: Countercultural Marriage and Alternative Chair: Jacqueline A. Stuhmiller, University of California, Berkeley Reproductions in Richard Brautigan's The Abortion: An Historical Romance 1966  Jacqueline A. Stuhmiller, University of California, Berkeley, Teaching Bestiality  Christiaan Sabatelli, No Mayonnaise Please: An Ecocritical Look At Trout Fishing In America  June Dwyer, Manhattan College, Unsafe Sex: Exploring Bestiality in Yeats’s “Leda and the Swan” and Albee’s The Goat  Margaret Konkol, Georgia Institute of Technology, Environmental Grief in Richard Brautigan’s Revenge of the Lawn  Wang Huang, The Ohio State University, Body and Animal in Chinese Erotic Fiction: A Reading of The Prayer Mat of Flesh and A Cursed Marital Fate

Friday, May 31

6Q. Staying Alive: a Workshop for Academic Professionals 7E. Eco-Ethics and the Moving Image (Part I of II) Stream: Beyond Words Stream: Ecopedagogy SMITH 107 SMITH 108 Chair: Nicole Seymour, University of Arkansas at Little Rock Workshop Leaders: John Tallmadge, Independent Scholar  Nicole Seymour, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, “Slow Mark Long, Keene State College Violence,” Slow Cinema  John J. Morrell, Vanderbilt University, Lost Cows and Recalcitrant Donkeys: Field Notes from Behind the Camera  Erika Berroth, Southwestern Univesity, Marica Bodrožic’s Session 7: 10:30 am - 12 pm Documentary of post-war Croatia: The Self in Space and Place

7A. Staying Alive: a Workshop for Academic Professionals 7F. I'm from Somewhere's Else: Stories of Migration, (Part II of II) Transience, and Travel Stream: Ecopedagogy Stream: Creative Writing SMITH 108 FRASER 222 Workshop Leaders: John Tallmadge, Independent Scholar Chair: Cody Lumpkin, Marshall University Mark Long, Keene State College  Cody Lumpkin, Marshall University, “I Was Told There’d Be

Canyons”: Poems of the Tourist Southwest 7B. Time in the Anthropocene Stream: Affect, Change, Loss  Sarah A. Chavez, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, The Land of My FRASER 124 Grandmother’s Labors: Mestizaje and Consciousness in the Chair: Elizabeth Callaway, University of California, Santa Barbara California Central Valley  Mary V. Stark, Central College, & Stephen R. Johnson, What is  Michelle Menting, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Residents & Post-Natural? Residence & Retention Time: Migrations of Memory, of Water  Nicole M. Merola, Rhode Island School of Design, "Perhaps the  Jennifer Case, SUNY-Binghamton, Longing for Sawbill: Place, universe is the memory of our mistakes": Materializing the Migration, and the Search for a Family Home Burdens of the Anthropocene in Jeanette Winterson’s The Stone Gods 7G. Stepping Outside: Imagining Nature Writing beyond  Elizabeth Callaway, University of California, Santa Barbara, A Ecomimesis Space for Justice: Messianic Time in the Figures of Climate Stream: Creative Writing Change FRASER 107 Chair: William Kupinse, University of Puget Sound 7C. Growth and Its Alternatives  William Kupinse, University of Puget Sound, Lookalike: Poems Stream: Affect, Change, Loss  David George Haskell, Sewanee: The University of the South, The FRASER 212 Forest Unseen Chair: Allen MacDuffie, University of Texas at Austin  Suzanne Warren, University of Puget Sound, The Reindeer  Patrick Russell, University of Nevada, Reno, Bringing Environmen- Daughter tal Justice Full Circle: Reading for Political Economy in Anne Pancake's Strange as this Weather has Been 7H. Relocating the Limits of Activist and Academic  Luis I. Prádanos, Westminster College, Recent Spanish Non- Coexistence fiction Books on Socioenvironmental Perspectives: Challenging Stream: Gender, Race, Justice the Mainstream Discourses in European Environmentalism FRASER 106  Allen MacDuffie, University of Texas at Austin, Breaking Bad's Chair: Christopher R. Lawrence, SUNY Sullivan Unsustainable Narratives  Simon C. Estok, Sungkyunkwan University, Tragedy, Terror, Ecophobia, Praxis 7D. Cleanwashing, Greenwashing, and Other Incapacities of  Hillary J. Fogerty, Missouri Southern State University, Why She Vision: Visual Rhetoric in the Arts of Environmental Politics Can’t Stop Talking About the Farmers Market: Considering the Stream: Beyond Words Role of Activism and Advocacy in Food Studies Pedagogy and FRASER 119 Curriculum Chair: M. Jimmie Killingsworth, Texas A&M University  Yanoula Athanassakis, Rutgers University, EJ, Pedagogy, and the  Jimmy Guignard, Mansfield University, Red, White, and Limits of Empathy Bluewashing: Visual Rhetoric and Fracking the Marcellus Shale  Christopher R. Lawrence, SUNY Sullivan, Think Local, Act Local:  M. Jimmie Killingsworth, Texas A&M University, Systemic Bioregional Literature as Bite-Sized Activism for Academia Incapacities of Vision in Environmental Rhetoric and Poetics  Diana Ashe, University of North Carolina, Wilmington, “Pretending to Care Is the New Caring”: Visual Rhetoric and the Re-mixed Greenwash

Friday, May 31

7I. American Studies, Ecocriticism and Citizenship II: New 7M. Prismatic Ecologies: Ecotheory Beyond Green Directions in Environmental Justice and the Study of the Stream: Green/Theory "Commons" SMITH 100 Stream: Gender, Race, Justice Chairs and Respondents: Serenella Iovino, University of Turin, and SABATINI MULTICULTURAL RESOURCE CENTER Serpil Oppermann, Hacettepe University Chair: Joni Adamson, Arizona State University  Jeffrey J. Cohen, George Washington University, Ecology's  John Gamber, Columbia University, Our Nations and All Our Rainbow Relations: Ecological Citizenship in William S. Yellow Robe’s The  Vin Nardizzi, University of British Columbia, Greener Council  Eileen Joy, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, Blue  Jeffrey Myers, Manhattan College, Self, Nature, and Other in  Lowell Duckert, West Virginia University, Maroon Percival Everett’s Wounded  Steve Mentz, St John's University, Brown  Sarah Grieve, Arizona State University, “Remembering It All Wrong”: Ecotourism, Memory, and Environmental Justice in Elizabeth Bishop’s Travel Poems 7N. Romantic Energies Stream: Nature Writing and Ecopoetics

FRASER 113 7J. Placed and Displaced Chair: William Stroup, Keene State College Stream: Geographies FRASER 208  Scott Obernesser, The University of Mississippi, Byronic Nature : Chair: Sarah E. McFarland, Northwestern State University Biocentrism, Anthropocentrism, and Nature in Don Juan  Mark O. Melder, Louisiana Tech, Deviant Places Reimagined:  Doug Thorpe, Seattle Pacific University, “Energy Is Eternal De- Toward a Human Ecology of Place light”: Blake, Energy, and the Transformation of Industry  Jennie J. Joiner, Keuka College, Romancing the Falls: Hydroelectric  Katherine Thorpe, Wesleyan University, A “Labour of Benevo- Power in the 21st Century lence”: The Poetics of Agricultural Cultivation in Lyrical Ballads  Angela Glover, Midland University, Growing Up in the Suburbs 7O. New Directions in Ecopoetic Critique  Sarah E. McFarland, Northwestern State University, After the Stream: Nature Writing and Ecopoetics Ecocollapse: Migration in Post-Apocalyptic Literature FRASER 117 Chair: Mandy Bloomfield, University of Bedfordshire 7K. Violence, Landscape, and Politics  Sarah Nolan, University of Nevada, Reno, Unnatural Ecopoetics: Stream: Geographies Unlikely Environments in Contemporary American Poetry FRASER 123 Chair: TBA  Gareth Farmer, University of Bedfordshire, Douglas Oliver’s rock- hewn poetics: "In what cave in the love of love / does swoftness  Dennis Rothermel, California State University, Chico, The Agony of lie"? the Agonistic Man in the Naked Western Wilderness in Anthony Mann’s The Naked Spur (1953)  Norah Bowman-Broz, Okanagan College, “No Friend of Cattle”: Ken Belford’s Virtual Forest in Decompositions  Lindsey M. Banco, University of Saskatchewan, “Hiroshima Is Peanuts”: The Surrealist Landscape of The Day After 7P. Conservation and its Opponents in 20th Century  Katie K. Cooper, University of Idaho, “Sliding Beneath the American Western Nature Writing Surface”: Environment, Gender, and Trans-Corporeality in Tim Stream: Nature Writing and Ecopoetics O’Brien’s The Things They Carried FRASER 112 Chair: Laird Christensen, Green Mountain College 7L. Violence and Alliance in the North  Christian Knoeller, Purdue University, Changing Migrations: The Stream: Geographies Ecological Memory of Midwestern Literary Naturalists FRASER 223 Chair: Jim Warren, Washington and Lee University  David T. Sumner, Linfield College, Why the Change? People and Property in Edward Abbey’s Monkeywrenching Novels  Jasmine Johnston, University of British Columbia, Copper, Blood, Caribou, and Ocean: Migrating Natures in a Dene Narrative  Michaelann Nelson, Bethel University, Wet Desert: Appropriating Nature Writing in Anti-Environmental Novels  Sigfrid Kjeldaas, University of Tromsø, The Significance of Hunting

 Eric Heyne, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Alaskan Gothic: The

Dark North of David Vann (and Others)

Friday, May 31

7Q. Natures of Empire II: Postcolonial Ecocriticism and the 7T. Animals and the Language of Sustainability Environmental Humanities Stream: Species and Food Stream: Postcolonial and Transnational Environments FRASER 122 SPOONER HALL, THE COMMONS Chair: Christina Colvin, Emory University Chair: Byron Caminero-Santangelo, University of Kansas  Kathryn Kirkpatrick, Appalachian State University, Representing Panelists: Byron Caminero-Santangelo, University of Kansas Foxes in Irish Literature and Culture Anthony Carrigan, Keele University  Kelsi Nagy, Canisius College, “Invasivores”: Human Responses to Alien Species, Trash Animals and Ecosystems of the Post Pristine Graham Huggan, University of Leeds  Christina Colvin, Emory University, Animals, Engineered: Produc- Jorge Marcone, Rutgers, The State University ing Life on the Factory Farm and in Atwood’s Oryx and Crake Rob Nixon, University of Wisconsin-Madison Susie O'Brien, McMaster University  Greg Brown, Mercyhurst University, The Rhetoric of Native and Malcolm Sen, University of Notre Dame Invasive in an Era of Global Change Anthony Vital, Transylvania University 7U. Talking Animal, Talking Animals, Talking Things 7R. International Eco-Activisms Stream: Species and Food Stream: Postcolonial and Transnational Environments FRASER 214 FRASER 225 Chair: Aaron Long, University of Kansas Chair: Rachel Myslivy, University of Kansas  Christopher R. Clason, Oakland University, Language as Leveler:  Yoshiko Kayano, Meisei University, Restoring the Power of Words Tearing Down Species Boundaries in Hoffmann’s Kater Murr and Action: Japan’s Unprecedented Anti-Nuke Grassroots  Rob McAlear, The University of Tulsa, Non-human Rhetorics: Le Movement Guin’s “Therolinguistics” and Pure Form  Caitlyn Schuchhardt, Literary Activism of the Bhopal Disaster:  Kevin Trumpeter, Allen University, The Language of the Stones: Slow Violence, Ecocide, and the Call for Corporate Responsibility Literary Naturalism and New Materialism  Creighton Nicholas Brown, University of Kansas, "Ka huri”:  Laura A. White, Middle Tennessee State University, Haunted by Mega-Tourism and the Outsider in Potiki and A Small Place Matter: Environmental Materialist Narration in Kim Scott’s That Deadman Dance 7S. I Am Not An Animal: Ideas of Nature, (Social) Darwinism, and Recreation Stream: Species and Food FRASER 111 Chair: Ryan Hediger, Kent State University, Tuscarawas  Donna L. Potts, Kansas State University, Room for Creatures: Fran- cis Harvey’s Bestiary

 Elizabeth Badolato, St. Johns University, The Emergence of the

Scientist

 Ryan Hediger, Kent State University, Tuscarawas, I Am Not An Animal: Violent Nature, (Social) Darwinism, and the History of American Football  Justine Wells, University of South Carolina, Preservation, Conser- vation, and Recreation: The Human at Play in the Hetch Hetchy Debate

Friday, May 31

Field Trips: 12:15 – 7:30 pm

Pre-registration is required for all trips (except movies) Boating Trip Please check your departure and return times, they vary Departure: A KU bus will depart with participants from the Kansas Memorial Union at noon and arrive at the boat ramp at 12:15. From from trip to trip! there, Up a Creek will collect signed waivers and transport boaters

to the get-in location at 12:30. For descriptions of all trips, please see http://asle.ku.edu/fieldtrips/

Return: The buses will be back at the boat ramp at 6 PM to take Field experiences are an ASLE tradition dating from our very first participants to the Spring Hill Suites, the Eldridge, the Oread, the conference in 1995. Please enjoy exploring the region, but come dorms, or the Kansas Memorial Union. Buses will not leave until all prepared. Turn in your field trip waiver forms at the registration participants are back at the boat ramp, but please be on time! desk prior to the trip date; you will not be allowed to participate in the trips without a signed waiver. For all trips (except the movie screenings on campus) you should plan to pack: Movies WOODRUFF AUDITORIUM, KANSAS MEMORIAL UNION  Plenty of water. The weather gets quite hot in late May, and the Konza hike includes steep hills. For the Konza Prairie and EGARC is an academic unit within the Humanities division of the Wakarusa Wetlands trips we will have two 5-gallon water jugs, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences whose mission is to promote the but please come with a full water bottle. learning and teaching of languages, cultures and humanities at the  Snacks—no food is provided on the trips. The Market in the University of Kansas through the use of technology and other in- Kansas Memorial Union will be open to purchase lunch and structional media. snacks before the trip. The auditorium is large enough to accommodate drop-ins if you did  Sunscreen not reserve a ticket in advance.

Konza Prairie Biological Station Trip The Trees Have a Mother: Amazonian Cosmologies, Departure: The Arrow Stage Lines buses will depart from outside Folktales, and Mystery the Kansas Memorial Union at exactly 12:30 pm on Friday, May 1:00-3:00pm 31st. It will take 1 ½ hours to get to the destination A film by Juan Carlos Galeano. In spite of mounting ecological dam- age, the Amazon Basin continues to nurture age-old stories and Return: Buses will depart the KPBS promptly at 5:45 pm and make beliefs. This documentary illustrates the importance of indigenous a short stop for participants to purchase snacks and use the narratives to those who dwell near the city of Iquitos, Peru, and restroom. You will arrive back in Lawrence at 7:30 pm, where the view their natural surroundings in mythical terms. Concerning a bus will drop you off at either the Spring Hill Suites, the Eldridge, young man who has recently gone missing in the forest, the film the Oread, the dorms, or the Kansas Memorial Union. depicts his mother’s attempts to find him with the help of local

shamans—resulting in various magical explanations for his disap- KU Field Station pearance and eventually producing a rich tapestry of tales and vi- Departure: Two KU buses will depart from the Kansas Memorial sions from all over the community. Viewer discretion is advised due Union at 1:30 PM. One bus will start at the Field Station and then go to sexual content. (subtitled) to the Native Medicinal Plant Garden, and the other will start at the After the screening (movie runs 71 min.) Plenary speaker Juan Carlos Native Medicinal Plant Garden and then go to the Field Station. Galeano will be available for a question and answer discussion on

the film. Return: Buses will depart from the Field Station at 5:00 pm and return back to the Kansas Memorial Union. Jamaica for Sale Wakarusa Wetlands A Documentary About Tourism & Unsustainable Development 4:00-6:00pm Departure: Two KU buses will leave the Kansas Memorial Union at 1:30 PM and will drop participants off at the nearby Haskell Indian Jamaica for Sale, by Esther Figueroa and Diana McCaulay, counters Nations University Cultural Center. the dominant view that tourism is the savior of the Jamaican people. Lively and hard hitting, with powerful voices, arresting visuals Return: Buses will be back at the Cultural Center at 4:30 to take and iconic music, Jamaica for Sale documents the environmental, participants back to the Union. economic, social and cultural impacts of unsustainable tourism development. As Jamaica is irreversibly transformed by massive Bicycling Trip hotel and luxury condominium development, Jamaica for Sale both Due to the small number of cyclists, we will be making plans for documents this transformation and tries to turn the tide. transportation and start and end times of this trip with the http://www.jamaicaforsale.net/ participants directly. After the screening (movie runs 92 min.), we hope to have plenary speaker Maxine Burkett (who appears in the film) participate via Skype in a question and answer session on the film.

Friday, May 31

Dinner On Your Own: 5:00 - 7:30 pm

Plenary 5: 8 – 9:30 pm

Juan Carlos Galeano and Jeffrey Thomson: A Poetry Reading and Conversation Woodruff Auditorium, Kansas Memorial Union

Juan Carlos Galeano is a Professor of Modern Languages and Linguistics at Florida State University. He is the author of Baraja Inicial (1986), Pollen and Rifles (1997), Amazonia (2003), and Yakumama and other Mythical Beings (2011). His poetry, inspired by Amazonian cosmologies and the modern world, has been published internationally and translated into French, English, Portuguese, and German. Poems from Amazonia have been published in magazines and journals such as The Atlantic Monthly, Field, Ploughshares, TriQuarterly, Antioch Review, and Review: Literature and the Arts of the Americas. His poems and folktales have also appeared in college textbooks, collections and in international anthologies such as Literary Amazonia (Florida UP 2004), Ecopoetry: A Contemporary American Anthology (Trinity UP, forthcoming), and The Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature (Continuum 2005). His research on Amazonian culture has appeared in his collection of folktales Cuentos amazónicos (Literalia Editores 2007), Folktales of the Amazon (ABC- CLIO 2008), as well as in the film he co-directed and co-produced, The Trees Have a Mother (Films for the Humanities and Sciences, 2008).

Jeffrey Thomson, Associate Professor of English, teaches poetry writing and contemporary literature at the University of Maine at Farmington. He is the author of four books of poems, including Birdwatching in Wartime (Carnegie Mellon UP 2009), winner of both the 2010 Maine Book Award and the 2011 ASLE Award in Environmental Creative Writing, and Renovation (Carnegie Mellon UP 2005). He is the 2012 Fulbright Distinguished Scholar in Creative Writing at the Seamus Heaney Poetry Centre at Queen's University Belfast. Recipient of a 2005 Literature Fellowship in Poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts, a 2006 Fellowship from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, and the 2008 Fellowship in the Literary Arts from the Maine Arts Commission, he is also the co-editor of From the Fishouse: An Anthology of Poems that Sing, Rhyme, Resound, Syncopate, Alliterate, and Just Plain Sound Great (Persea 2009).

Saturday, June 1 Session 8: 8:30 - 10 am 8E. Feminine Geographies Stream: Creative Writing, Ecopoetics WESCOE 4008 NOTE: Because the Fraser, Smith, and Sabatini buildings are closed Chair: Megan Kaminski, University of Kansas on the weekends, Saturday sessions will be held in Wescoe Hall and  Megan Kaminski, University of Kansas, Deep City The Commons in Spooner Hall.  Marcella Durand, Black Earth Institute, In This World of 12 8A. Labor and Calamity Months Stream: Affect, Change, Loss  Bonnie Roy, University of California-Davis, Mother Nature: Poetry WESCOE 4020 and Placing the Maternal Chair: Kent Ryden, University of Southern Maine  Linda Russo, Washington State University, Geography Walking:  Karl Zuelke, College of Mount St. Joseph, Butterfly, Kentucky Pedestrian Counter-Mapping  Glenn Stubbs, Kent State University, Memorialization of a Workplace Disaster: (Re)defining a Local Community 8F. Engaging Undergraduate Eco-Agency: A Pedagogy  Daniel J. Martin, Rockhurst University, Overburden: A Retold Story Roundtable and Student Paper Jam of Limestone Mining in Kansas City Stream: Ecopedagogy WESCOE 4067

Chair: Sarah Jaquette Ray, University of Alaska, Southeast 8B. Models, Mind, and Materials Stream: Affect, Change, Loss  Evelyn Meisenbacher, Drew University, The Masumoto Family WESCOE 4023 Farm in David Mas Masumoto’s Harvest Son: Planting Roots in Chair: Anne Keller, Antioch University New England American Soil  David L. Gugin, University of Guam, From the Tragic to the Comic:  Christina Ocampo, Drew University, Religious Change and the Indigenous Environmentalisms and Paradigm Migration Environment in Cherrie Moraga’s Heroes and Saints  Elizabeth Latosi-Sawin, Missouri Western State University,  Anne Thomas, University of Alaska Southeast, The Ecological Indi- Changing Our Natures: Material Ecocriticism, Theory of Mind an in the Pacific Northwest and the Novel  Adam Wood, University of Alaska Southeast, Environmental Jour-  Anne Keller, Antioch University New England, Every Landscape nalism: An Ethical Dilemma Tells a Story: Ecological Narratives of May Theilgaard Watts and Respondents: Kevin Maier, University of Alaska, Southeast, and Sarah Sigurd F. Olson Wald, Drew University

8C. Landscapes of Nation, Place, and Gender in Visual Media 8G. Reimagining the Prairie: Overcoming Western Myths in Stream: Beyond Words Theater, Landscape Design, Immigration, and Removal WESCOE 4025 Stream: Geographies Chair: Mary Beth Woodson, University of Kansas SPOONER HALL, THE COMMONS  Don Fredericksen, Cornell University, Solastalgia and Chair: Benjamin Vogt, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Psycho-terratic Dis-eases: A Typology for Film Eco-criticism  Patricia Oman, Hastings College, “Oh What a Beautiful Morning”:  Christopher (Chip) Oscarson, Brigham Young University, The Music of Great Plains Utopia and Ecological Disaster Modernity’s Changing Nature: Development of an Ecological  Terry A. Tucker, Kansas State University, O Pioneers!: Ossian Cole Aesthetic in turn of the Twentieth Century Scandinavia Simonds and the Romance of the Prairie in Landscape Design  Cynthia Belmont, Northland College, Travels in  Benjamin Vogt, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Mennonites in "Queernaturecultures": An Ecofeminist Reading of Boys Don't Kansas: How Subversive Immigration Displaced Prairie Cultures Cry and By Hook or By Crook  Linda Hogan, Chicasaw Nation, Bringing the People and Land Back Together: The Repatriation of Sacred Knowledge 8D. Places of Personal Satisfactions (Sponsored by the Western Literature Association) 8H. Language, Ontology, and Environment Stream: Creative Writing Stream: Green/Theory WESCOE 4071 WESCOE 4007 Chair: Liz Stephens, Ohio University Chair: Kaitlin Mondello, The Graduate Center, CUNY  Lisa Knopp, University of Nebraska-Omaha, Going to the Beets  Kaitlin Mondello, The Graduate Center, CUNY, Real Leaves in  Liz Stephens, Ohio University, I Lived For a While In Ohio Surrealist Landscapes: The Art of Ecology in Elizabeth Bishop’s  Russell Beck, Utah State University, The Roots of Aspens North and South  Roland Racevskis, University of Iowa, Language as Waste in J.M.G. Le Clézio's The Giants  W. Mark Giles, Alberta College of Art + Design, Inscribing on/by Wilderness: Letter, Logos and Utterance in Margaret Atwood’s “Death By Landscape”

Saturday, June 1

8I. Human and Linguistic Environments 8M. Dog and Cat People Stream: Green/Theory Stream: Species and Food WESCOE 4033 WESCOE 4019 Chair: Nathan Germain, University of Wisconsin-Madison  Nathan Germain, University of Wisconsin-Madison, A Poetics of  Matthew Guzman, University of Texas at San Antonio, Dog’s Best Space: Cultural, Linguistic, and Geographical Hybridity in Verre Friend? – Mark Twain’s “A Dog’s Tale” Cassé by Alain Mabanckou  John MacNeill Miller, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey,  James M. Pangborn, SUNY Oswego, Wider than the Sky: Language Migrating Between Character and Setting: Animals and as Ecosystem; Poem as Environment Environments in George Eliot’s Realism  Justin King Rademaekers, Purdue University, Ecocritical Activism  Mary De Jong, Penn State University, Altoona College, Canine and and Networked Ontologies: A Metaphoric Approach Human Ferality in Hornung's Dog Boy

8J. Modernist Women and the Novel 8N. Nearly Human Stream: Nature Writing and Ecopoetics Stream: Species and Food WESCOE 4041 WESCOE 4002 Chair: Jesse Bordwin, University of Virginia Chair: Ashley C. Kramer, University of Southern California  Andrew Kalaidjian, University of California, Santa Barbara, The  Ashley C. Kramer, University of Southern California, Toward an Black Sheep: Ambient Pastoral in Djuna Barnes's Nightwood Ethics of Difference: Kazuo Ishiguro and Bioethical Systems  Sarah Dunlap, Ohio State University, The Eco-Logic of H.D.'s  Shinji Iwamasa, Shirayuri College, Nausicaä and the Humanoids of HERmione the Uncanny Valley  Jesse Bordwin, University of Virginia, Woolfian Aesthetics and  Erin Conley, University of California, Los Angeles, “We were here Compassionate Metaphysics first. We have never left”: The Extra-Terrestrial and Keri Hulme’s  Rebekah A. Taylor, Kent State University, "considering the whole Naturalcultural Contact Zones effect": Woolf's The Waves, Ecocriticism, and Literary Form  Nina Varsava, Stanford University, The “Posthuman” Novel: Human/Animal Hybridity and Laurence Gonzales’ Lucy 8K. Poetry Across Boundaries Stream: Nature Writing and Ecopoetics 8O. Farming, Eating, Identity WESCOE 4001 Stream: Species and Food Chair: Gülsah Dindar, Hacettepe University WESCOE 4051  Tom Pughe, Université d'Orléans, Nature’s Social Union: Chair: Bethany Ober, Penn State University Re-Reading Anthropomorphism in Poetry About Animals  Shamim Us-Saher Ansari, St. Louis Community College-Meramec,  Gülsah Dindar, Hacettepe University, Ted Hughes’s Animals and “You are What You Eat and How You Eat”: The Ethics and Animality: The Crow and/or Us Aesthetics of Eating in French Canadian Culture as Dramatized in Willa Cather’s Shadows on the Rock  Yuehong Chen, The University of Texas at Dallas, A Comparative Study of Ezra Pound and Hu Shi in their Conception of the  Bethany Ober, Penn State University, Expanding the Limits of Man-Nature Relationship: Transcending Binary Thinking in Gender and Domesticity in Contemporary Ecofeminist Memoir East-West Comparative Studies of Views of Nature  Rhona McAdam, In Your Own Backyard: Food Soverignty and the Urban Garden 8L. Environmental Justice and Political Ecology in Three African Environments 8P. Don't Kill the Messenger: Animal Events and Human Stream: Postcolonial and Transnational Environments Media WESCOE 4012 Stream: Species Chair: Juan Meneses, Purdue University WESCOE 4076  Dustin Crowley, University of Kansas, Political Ecology in Ngugi's Chair: Yvonne Kaisinger, University of Salzburg Wizard of the Crow  Yvonne Kaisinger, University of Salzburg, Frogs are Fortuitous  Juan Meneses, Purdue University, Land Matters: Dissent and Canaries in our Coal Mine: The Treatment of Amphibian Political Agency in South African Fiction Extinction in Mayra Montero's In the Palm of Darkness  Ali Brox, University of Kansas, Pirates or Conscientious Avengers:  Summer Gioia Harrison, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Journalism, Environmental Justice, and Ocean Sustainability in Environmental Justice in the Media: Affect and Affected Nuruddin Farah’s Crossbones Ignorance  Ron Broglio, Arizona State University, Untimely Animal Revolution: Santino the Chimp as an Incidents in the Revolution against Humans

Saturday, June 1

Plenary 6: 10:30 am – 12 pm After Progress: Enacting Systems of Life-Enhancement Woodruff Auditorium, Kansas Memorial Union

Daniel Wildcat is a professor at Haskell Indian Nations University in Lawrence, Kansas. He writes on indigenous knowledge, technology, environment, and education. He is co-director of the Haskell Environmental Research Studies Center, which he founded with colleagues from the Center for Hazardous Substance Research at Kansas State University. A Yuchi member of the Muscogee Nation of Oklahoma, Dr. Wildcat is the author of Red Alert! Saving the Planet with Indigenous Knowledge (Fulcrum 2009); coauthor, with Vine Deloria, Jr., of Power and Place: Indian Education in America (Fulcrum 2001); and coeditor, with Steve Pavlik, of Destroying Dogma: Vine Deloria, Jr., and His Influence on American Society (Fulcrum 2006). Known for his commitment to environmental defense and cultural diversity, Dr. Wildcat has been honored by the Kansas City organization The Future Is Now with the Heart Peace Award.

Special Presentation: 12:30 – 1:30 pm Saving the Sacred Wakarusa Wetlands in Lawrence Big 12 Room, Kansas Memorial Union (bring a brown bag lunch)

In 2008-2009, John Tallmadge, under the leadership of past presidents Rochelle Johnson, Dan Philippon, and Annie Ingram, led a development campaign to raise monies that would allow ASLE to facilitate stronger connections between faculty and students working in the environmental humanities and local communities. At the 2012 ASLE Leadership Retreat, President Joni Adamson and the Executive Council sketched the outlines of three pilot projects that would begin building these connections. The first of these projects will be presented in this session which will connect ASLE to the Wetlands Preservations Organization and EcoJustice Coalition of Lawrence. ASLE's Executive Council awarded this group a grant to support efforts to preserve and protect the sacred Wakarusa Wetlands. In addition to being a crucial refuge of rich biodiversity, these wetlands have immense spiritual and historical for the students and faculty of Haskell Indian Nations University. For more than twenty years, members of the Haskell and Lawrence community have contested the construction of a large, multi-lane highway through the wetlands. Many of the legal avenues for fighting the construction have been exhausted, but Haskell and the Wetlands Preservation Organization (WPO) continue to fight through appeals for public support. ASLE's grant will help this group raise awareness of the history and significance of the wetlands through artistic installations and the production of narratives inspired by native culture and its links with the rich local ecosystem.

Joni Adamson will introduce a panel made up of faculty and students from Haskell and KU, as well as other members of the Lawrence community. The panel will discuss the history of the wetlands and address questions from the audience. It will include Dan Wildcat, Mike Caron, Kelly Kindscher, Jessica Lackey, and Ali Brox.

Session 9: 1:30 - 3 pm 9B. Happiness, Affection, Fear, Grief Stream: Affect, Change, Loss WESCOE 4020 9A. Petrochemicals, Consumer Culture, and Toxic Body Chair: Zümre Gizem Yilmaz, Hacettepe University Burdens: How Industrial Production Gets Written on (and in)  Peter F. Perreten, Ursinus College, Protoecology in Erasmus the Environment and the Human Body Darwin's "The Happiness of Organic Life" Stream: Affect, Change, Loss  José Manuel Marrero Henríquez, Universidad de Las Palmas de WESCOE 4071 Gran Canaria, Words that Breathe Chair: McKay Jenkins, University of Delaware  Zümre Gizem Yilmaz, Hacettepe University, Ecophobia: Fear,  McKay Jenkins, University of Delaware, What's Gotten Into Us: Migration, and Changing the Environment Petro-Chemicals, Consumer Culture and Toxic Body Burdens  Sylvan Goldberg, Stanford University, “This Too Late Impression”:  Michael Lundblad, Colorado State University, Toxic Hierarchies: Environmental Loss and the Problems of Grief in John Kirk Cancer, Environment, and Animality in Sandra Steingraber’s Townsend’s Narrative of a Journey Across the Rocky Mountains Living Downstream to the Columbia River  Anita Girvan, University of Victoria, wii 2 r ephemera: Archiving Eco-Cultural Morphology 35

Saturday, June 1 9C. Ecocritical Encounters with Buddhism 9G. Connecting the Classroom to the World Stream: Beyond Words Stream: Ecopedagogy SPOONER HALL, THE COMMONS WESCOE 4012 Chair: Nancy Menning, Ithaca College Chair: Rebecca Galeano, Florida State University  David T. Bialock, University of Southern California, Reanimating  George Hart, California State University Long Beach, & Taylor Japanese Animism: Reading Back from Ishimure Michiko’s Parker, Tidal Influence, Coastal Consilience: Urban Wetlands Paradise in a Sea of Sorrow Restoration, Environmental Literature, and Service Learning  Nancy Menning, Ithaca College, Mourning Nature: Extending the  Rebecca Galeano, Florida State University, For Better or Worse? Religious Imagination in Colin Thubron's To a Mountain in Tibet CRFA Schools Effects on Indigenous and Mestizo Communities in  Won-Chung Kim, Sungkyunkwan University, From Despair and the Rural Peruvian Amazon Disillusionment into Enlightenment: Buddhism and Ecology in  Jonathan Steinwand, Concordia College, Introducing Environmen- Seungho Choi's Ecopoetry tal Justice through Poetry While Introducing Poetry through Environmental Justice 9D. Changing Landscapes, Creative Responses: Writing the Natural World 9H. Postcolonial Ecofeminist Literature Stream: Creative Writing Stream: Gender, Race, Justice WESCOE 4023 WESCOE 4008 Chair: Jessica Weatherford, University of Kansas Chair: Annie Lowe, University of Kansas  Callista Buchen, University of Kansas, Readings from The Bloody  Gurpreet Kaur, University of Warwick, Sohaila Abdulali’s The Planet Madwoman of Jogare: A Postcolonial Ecofeminist Analysis  Anne Valente, University of Utah, Readings from "Mollusk,  Susan Comfort, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Uzma Aslam Membrane, Human Heart" Khan's Trespassing as a World-Ecology Novel: Gender/Sex,  Matt Bell, Northern Michigan University, Readings from In the Embodiment, and Global Environmental Justice House upon the Dirt between the Lake and the Woods  Lynn Abbassi, University of the West Indies, “The language of landscape”: Ecofeminism and Trinidadian Women’s Novels 9E. Ecological Makeovers Stream: Creative Writing 9I. Mothers, Magic, and Mysteries WESCOE 4067 Stream: Gender, Race, Justice Chair: Jim Bishop, Young Harris College WESCOE 4001  Julia Corbett, University of Utah, Trout, Truffles, and Temples of Chair: Ian Werkheiser, Michigan State University Consumption  Ian Werkheiser, Michigan State University, Apron Strings, Mama's  Jim Bishop, Young Harris College, Dropping Possums and Chunkin’ Boys, and Obstetrics: The Problem with Representing “Nature” Punkins: Recreation, Waste, and Material Ecocriticism as “Mother” in Our Culture   Hal Crimmel, Weber State University, Two Gallons of Mountain Kimberly Beilfuss, Oklahoma State University, Wild Women, Dew a Day: A Chronicle of America’s Love Affair With Soda and Makers, & Mystics: The Intersection of Nature, Aesthetics, and Mountains Female Power in Contemporary Blogs  Heidi Staples, Piedmont College, Beyond Self and Epic: The Coun- 9F. Teaching, Writing, Survival ter-Epic Impulse in Juliana Spahr’s This Connection of Everyone with Lungs, Anne Waldman’s Manatee/Humanity, and Alice Stream: Ecopedagogy Notley’s Descent of Alette WESCOE 4019 Chair: Katherine R. Chandler, St. Mary's College of Maryland  Katherine R. Chandler, St. Mary's College of Maryland, Students' Low Reserves of Oil: Sustaining Interest in Environmental Issues Stream: Geographies WESCOE 4007  Kristen Epp & Andrew Hazucha, Ottawa University, Chair: Kevin Maier, University of Alaska Southeast Interdisciplinary Ecopedagogy: Wrenching Hope from Despair  Kevin Maier, University of Alaska Southeast, ASLE Juneau: The  Elyse Zucker, Hostos Community College/CUNY, Making Report from the 2012 Off-Year Symposium Connections between Ecological Processes, our Egos and Our  Oikos Chantal Bilodeau, independent, SILA  William Slaymaker, Wayne State University, Boon/doggle/ doggerel: Slanted perspectives, Poetic and Political, on the Transcanadian XL Pipeline

 Elspeth Tulloch, Université Laval, Elegy for Change: The Extinction Narrative in Fred Bodsworth’s Last of the Curlews

 Will Elliott, University of California, Davis, Cryopolitics / Cold Cosmopolitanism: Contemporary Alaskan Writing on the Extraterrestrial Scale 36

Saturday, June 1

9K. Canadian Urbanity 9O. Natural Machines, Natural Elements Stream: Geographies Stream: Nature Writing and Ecopoetics WESCOE 4035 WESCOE 4033 Chair: Matthew Zantingh, McMaster University Chair: Jenny Kerber, University of Toronto  Erin Despard, Concordia University, A Love for Plants Gone Bad:  Christina Alt, University of St. Andrews, Mechanizing Nature: Early Lessons from a Non-linear History of Gardens in Montreal Ecology and the Modernist Avant-Garde  Derek J. Woods, Rice University, Poetic Geography of Vancouver:  Jenny Kerber, University of Toronto, Here Comes the Flood: Ecologies of Inscription in Marlatt, Quartermain, and Robertson Cross-Boundary Dams, Climate Change, and Future Memory  Matthew Zantingh, McMaster University, Towards a Theory of  Rick Sweet, Genesee Community Colllege, Human Air Travel: A Urban Nature: What the City Might Mean for Ecocriticism Challenge to Environmental Integrity

9L. Orientalism, Nationalism, Nature 9P. Environmental Justice in Chicano/a Perspective Stream: Geographies Stream: Postcolonial and Transnational Environments WESCOE 4002 WESCOE 4041 Chair: James Weaver, Denison University Chair: Ashley Ortiz, University of Kansas  James Weaver, Denison University, Washington Irving, Imperial  Kiara L. Kharpertian, Boston College (via Skype), Brown Work in Domesticity, and the Seeds of Ecological Awareness Green Space: The Labor of Ethnic Ecocriticism in Maria Amparo  Matthew H. Pangborn, Briar Cliff University, Towards an Ecology Ruiz de Burton’s Squatter and the Don and Raymond Barrio’s of Mind: Orientalism and the Environment in Washington The Plum Plum Pickers Irving’s Tales of the Alhambra and Tour on the Prairies  Taylor McHolm, University of Oregon, "That Was Due Her":  Josh Mabie, University of Wisconsin - Whitewater, Making the Embodied Debt in Helena Maria Viramontes's Under the Feet of Bloom Desert: Nineteenth Century American Writing and Holy Jesus Land Desolation  Edward Schaumberg, University of Washington, Your Family Tree:  Hannes De Vriese, Université de Toulouse II-Le Miraill / Natural Environments and Identity in Americo Parédes's George Universiteit Gent, Robinson Crusoe: Anglo-Saxon and Washington Gómez Francophone Encounters with Ecopoetic Insularity 9Q. Agricultural Justice 9M. After the Truth of Ecology: Ecology's Current Place in Stream: Species and Food Ecocriticism WESCOE 4051 Stream: Green/Theory Chair: Michelle C. Neely, University of Toronto/Connecticut College WESCOE 4076  Michelle C. Neely, University of Toronto/Connecticut College, Chair: Ashley Elaine Reis, University of North Texas Pre-Industrial American Animal Agriculture: Puncturing the Pastoral Myth  Ashley E. Reis, University of North Texas, Cross-Fertilization: Steinbeck and the “Truth of Ecology” in Ecocriticism  Cory Shaman, Arkansas Tech University, The New Southern  Melissa S. Sexton, The Oregon Extension, Towards a Latourian Apologists: Southern Local Foodways, Racial Reconciliation, and Political Ecology: Better Theory, Better Science, and Ecocriticism Animal Welfare  Julie Berthoud, University of Cincinnati, Transnational  Respondent: Dana Phillips, Towson University/Rhodes University Eco-feminist Paradigms for Survival in Ruth Ozeki’s My Year of Meats 9N. The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly

Stream: Nature Writing and Ecopoetics

WESCOE 4025 Chair: Stephanie LeMenager, University of California, Santa Barbara / Session 10: 3:30 - 5 pm University of Oregon  Scott Hess, Earlham College, Yoking Nature and Nation in "America the Beautiful”: A Study in Cultural Migration 10A. Ecologies of Violence Stream: Affect, Change, Loss  Shawn Thomson, University of Texas Pan American, Herman WESCOE 4071 Melville’s “Bartleby, the Scrivener” and the Fugitive Road Trip Chair: Pete Hay, University of Tasmania from Wall Street to Manhattan  Teresa Shewry, University of California, Santa Barbara, Stories of  Christopher Todd Anderson, Pittsburg State University, Entrapment in Ecologies of Violence Emerson’s Lobster, Dickinson’s Flies: Appreciating Ugly Nature in  19th-Century America Maureen E. Shea, Tulane University, Reverence: José María Arguedas and the Natural World in The Fox from Up Above and the Fox from Down Below

 Pete Hay, University of Tasmania, Fear and Loathing in Tasmania’s Forest Conflict and Timber Industry: Poetic and Other Creative Representations from the Field

Saturday, June 1

10B. Photography, Cartography, Videography 10F. Teaching and Place Stream: Beyond Words Stream: Ecopedagogy WESCOE 4067 WESCOE 4035 Chair: David Stentiford, Stanford University Chair: Scott Knickerbocker, The College of Idaho  David Stentiford, Stanford University, How to Look at an  Scott Knickerbocker, The College of Idaho, Skiing with Papa: Ecosystem: Composite Photography and the Visual Culture of Teaching Hemingway in the Backcountry Snow Ecology  John Bennion, Brigham Young University, Getting Students  Matthew Varner, Purdue University, Photography through a Outside: Integrated Natural History—Utah Hawk's Eye: Henri Cartier-Bresson's Animals  Patrick Byrne, McMaster University, Narratives in Outdoor and  Mary Beth Woodson, University of Kansas, Same Film, Different Environmental Education: Using Ecocriticism to Inform Practice Pictures: Nonhuman Animal Portrayal in Planet Earth and Earth  Nathan Straight, Utah State University, Distance as Substance: Place-Based Studies for Place-Bound Students 10C. Land and Memory Stream: Creative Writing WESCOE 4041 Stream: Ecopedagogy Chair: Caroline M. Stephens, University of Montana WESCOE 4025  Caroline M. Stephens, University of Montana, A Murder of Crows Chair: Carly Lettero, Spring Creek Project, Oregon State University and a Mess of Place: Examining Masculine Heritage and Work in Eric Magrane, University of Arizona Kentucky  Eric Dieterle, Northern Arizona University, In passing: After many destinations, an arrival  Nels Christensen, Albion College, Things Made and Unmade 10H. Trauma and Alliance in African American Nature Writing 10D. Defining Land with Water Stream: Gender, Race, Justice WESCOE 4008 Stream: Creative Writing Chair: Daniel J. Martin, Rockhurst University WESCOE 4033 Chair: Brian Bartlett, Saint Mary's University  Kelly Clasen, East Central University, Charles Chesnutt’s Earliest Novel, Mandy Oxendine, and the Emergence of His  Brian Bartlett, Saint Mary's University, A Calendar of Water: Environmental Ethos Excerpts from a Book of Days  David Anderson, University of Louisville, Sterling Brown and the  Susan Hanson, Texas State University, The Vicissitudes of Good Georgic Tradition in African American Literature Water  Carol A. Gosselink, Missouri State University, A Little Friendly  Diane Hueter Warner, Texas Tech University, After the Tornado Lynching: A Natural History of Racism, Speciesism, and Genocide 10E. Paper Jam: Creating a Climate for Change: Activism Within and Beyond the Borders of the Classroom 10I. Narratives of Ecological Disaster and Resistance in the Stream: Ecopedagogy US South SPOONER HALL, THE COMMONS Stream: Geographies Chairs and Moderators: Brianne Burke, Iowa State University, and WESCOE 4023 Chiyo Crawford, Mount Holyoke College Chair: Kerim Can Yazgünoglu, Hacettepe University  Brianna R. Burke, Iowa State University, Cutting Through the  Kerim Can Yazgünoglu, Hacettepe University, Material Smog: Teaching About Mountain Top Removal at a University NatureCultures: Oil, Toxicity, and Nonhuman Corporeality in Powered by Coal Josh and Rebecca Tickell’s The Big Fix and Sarah Hall’s The  Chiyo Crawford, Mount Holyoke College, From a Queer Ecological Carhullan Army Reading of Sui Sin Far's Fiction to Enacting Change in the “Real  John Fredericks, University of Nevada, Reno, Sink or Swim: World” Environmental Justice in the Post-Katrina Flood Narrative  Elizabeth Ammons, Tufts University, Double Duty: Teaching  Sara L. Crosby, Ohio State University at Marion, Losing Louisiana: Activism at the Graduate Level The Rhetorics Destroying America’s Wetland  Vivek Freitas, Tufts University, Ecocriticism and Political Activism:  Michael J. Beilfuss, Oklahoma State University, Southern What’s to be Learnt from Animal’s People? Migrations: Wilderness, Pastoral, and Urbanity in Cormac  Samuel Awuah-Nyamekye, University of Leeds, Between Rhetoric McCarthy’s Suttree and Reality: Post-Independence African Governments’ Attitude

to Indigenous Ecological Knowledge – Case study from Ghana

 Modhumita Roy, Tufts University, A World to Win: A New International EJ Anthology

 J. Drew Lanham, Clemson University, Pedagogy, Activist Practice, and Applied Conservation

Saturday, June 1

10J. Owning, Cultivating and Managing Land 10N. Agriculture and its Discontents Stream: Geographies Stream: Nature Writing and Ecopoetics WESCOE 4001 WESCOE 4019 Chair: Daniel D. Clausen, Boise State University Chair: Jim Warren, Washington and Lee University  Daniel W. Noland, University of North Carolina Wilmington, We  Katherine Osborn, Creighton University, Robert Bloomfield and Ought to Own Land his Ecology of Nation: Work, Nature, and Regionalism  Susan Bruxvoort Lipscomb, Houghton College, Slaves and Land  Kevin McKelvey, University of Indianapolis, Till Plain: A novel-in- Agents: the Trouble with Stewardship progress  Annie K. Smart, Saint Louis University, Critical Migrations:  David Plastrik, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Two Farms: Towards an Ecocritical Reading of Nature in George Sand Prose Poems  Daniel D. Clausen, Boise State University, Ten Acres Enough: A  Jeremy Elliott, Abilene Christian University, Environmentalists' 19th Century Farm Narrative Bread Problem, and Janisse Ray's Response

10K. Memory and Resistance in Celtic Landscapes 10O. Caribbean Women Writers and Resistance Stream: Geographies Stream: Postcolonial and Transnational Environments WESCOE 4012 WESCOE 4076 Chair: Frank Merksamer, University of Nevada, Reno Chair: Ania Kowalik, Emory University  Eric Gidal, University of Iowa, Ossianic Unconformities: Bardic  Douglas Boudreau, Mercyhurst University, (Un)natural Disasters Poetry in the Industrial Age in the Colonial Climate: Maryse Condé’s Moi, Tituba, Sorcière  Frank Merksamer, University of Nevada, Reno, Joseph Sheridan Le  Adam G. Benson, University of Idaho, Welcome to the Jungle: Fanu's Forests Representations of Environmental Excess in Wide Sargasso Sea  Aaron Long, University of Kansas, For Peat’s Sake: Trolling the  Ania Kowalik, Emory University, A Breath That Heals, a Breath Bog of Twentieth-Century Irish Literature to Understand the That Wounds: Entanglements of Nature and History in Jamaica Earth Liberation Front Kincaid

10L. Disability and the Sense of Nature 10P. Historical Perspectives on African Environmentalism Stream: Green/Theory Stream: Postcolonial and Transnational Environments WESCOE 4007 WESCOE 4020 Chair: Stillman Wagstaff, University of Wisconsin-Madison Chair: Dustin Crowley, University of Kansas  Julie Williams, University of New Mexico, This Land Belongs to All  Paul Shaw, University of the West Indies, From Mission to of Us: Disabilities Access and the Need for Nature Commission: Colonial Perceptions of the Kalahari Environment  Matthew J.C. Cella, Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania, The 1849-1960. Ecosomatic Paradigm: Bodies and Place in Disability Narratives  Augustine Nchoujie, University of Yaounde / York University,  Stillman Wagstaff, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Alive to the Africa, the Ancestral Home of Ecocriticism? Sensual Mesh: Non-visual Sense Perception in the Poetry of  Ng’ang’a wa Muchiri, University of Miami, Migration, Settler Lorine Niedecker Mentality & (Hu)Man Transformation of African Landscapes  Chris Klassen, Wilfrid Laurier University, Trans-corporeal Permeability: Challenging the Metanarrative of Environmental 10Q. Animal Theory and Spiritual Holism Stream: Species and Food WESCOE 4051 10M. Ethics and Activism in Children's Literature Chair: Linda Haverty Rugg, University of California, Berkeley Stream: Nature Writing and Ecopoetics  Yalan Chang, Huafan University, Animality and Transformation WESCOE 4002  Michael Emerson, Northwestern Michigan College, Wild, Chair: Clare Echterling, University of Kansas Domestic, and the Rest of Us Animals: Significant Otherness in  Dean Mendell, Touro College, Children of the Sea: Moral Giono’s Joy of Man’s Desiring Education on the Whale Ships of Nineteenth-Century Fiction  Anne E. Porter, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, Interagentivity  Amy Cummins, University of Texas Pan American, Ecotage in in Cortazar's “Axolotl” Recent Fiction for Young Adults: Burnout, Torched, and Earthgirl  Kyhl Lyndgaard, Marlboro College, A Borderlands Captivity Narrative for “Dear Children Everywhere”

Saturday, June 1

Plenary 7: 5:15 – 6:45 pm Nature and Agriculture on the Great Plains Woodruff Auditorium, Kansas Memorial Union

The Garden in the West Donald Worster is the Joyce and Elizabeth Hall Professor of U.S. History at the University of Kansas. He is considered a foundational scholar in the field of environmental history and has written extensively on changing perceptions of nature, the rise of conservation and environmentalism, and the impact of the natural world on human society. His most recent book, A Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir, was published by Oxford University Press in 2008 and was named the best work of non-fiction by the Scottish Arts Council, as well as winning the Ambassador Award for Biography from the English Speaking Union. Earlier books have won more than a dozen book prizes. He is former president of the American Society for Environmental History and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His extensive publications include Dust Bowl: the Southern Plains in the 1930s (Oxford UP 2004), Nature's Economy: A History of Ecological Ideas (Cambridge UP 1994), and Rivers of Empire: Water, Aridity, and the Growth of the American West (Oxford UP 1992).

New Roots for Agriculture Wes Jackson, President of The Land Institute, studied botany and genetics and was a professor of biology at Kansas Wesleyan and later established the Environmental Studies department at California State University, Sacramento, where he became a tenured full professor. He resigned that position in 1976 and returned to Kansas to found The Land Institute. Dr. Jackson's most recent works include Nature as Measure (2011) and Consulting the Genius of the Place: An Ecological Approach to a New Agriculture (2010); with William Vitek, he has co-edited The Virtues of Ignorance: Complexity, Sustainability, and the Limits of Knowledge (2008) and Rooted in the Land: Essays on Community and Place (1996). For his work with The Land Institute, Life magazine named Wes Jackson as one of 18 individuals they predict will be among the 100 "important Americans of the 20th century." In the November 2005 issue, Smithsonian named him one of "35 Who Made a Difference," and in March, 2009 Wes was included in Rolling Stone's "100 Agents of Change." Jackson is a recipient of the Pew Conservation Scholars award (1990), a MacArthur Fellowship (1992), Stockholm’s Right Livelihood Award (known as the "Alternative Nobel Prize") (2000), and the Louis Bromfield Award (2010).

Closing Banquet 7:00 – 9 pm Banquet Ballroom, Kansas Memorial Union

Say goodbye to friends old and new, and enjoy a vegetarian buffet with vegan and gluten free selections, wine, and local beers.

There will be a short program of thanks and announcements at 8:15pm.

Sunday, June 2

Breakfast: 8 – 11 am

Complimentary Continental Breakfast Lobby, Kansas Memorial Union

Have some sustenance on us before you begin your travels home. Enjoy a continental breakfast of bagels and cream cheese, yogurt, fruit, and coffee.

Thanks for joining us at the ASLE conference!

Shuttle Service(advance reservation required)

Conference airport shuttle buses will be running between Lawrence at the Kansas City airport (MCI) according to the schedule posted at the website (http://asle.ku.edu/logistics/transportation.php).

The buses will pick up at all dorms, Eldridge, Springhill Suites, and the Union. Those staying at the Oread will board their buses at the Union.

Participants in the Author’s Reception

ASLE Book Award Winners:

Index of Presenters This index includes preconferernce leaders and session respondents but not chairs

Abbassi, Lynn, 9H Bradfield, Elizabeth, 1F Davis, H. Louise, 4S George, Barbara E., 1I Abbot, Sophia, 4E Branch, Michael P., 1G De Jong, Mary, 8M Geriguis, Lora, 1U Adamson, Joni, preconf, 6F Brazier-Tompkins, Shakti, 6O De Vriese, Hannes, preconf, 9L Germain, Nathan, 8I Adelman, Deborah, 2E Brill de Ramirez, Susan Berry, 1S DeBaise, Janine, 1G Gianquitto, Tina, 6J Aguilera, Dulce Abigail Perez, Broglio, Ron, 8P DeLoughrey, Elizabeth, 6N, 7Q Gidal, Eric, 10K preconf, 5O Brooks, George English, 5H Desmarais, Michele Marie, 5L Giles, W. Mark, 8H Alaimo, Stacy, Plenary 3, 6E Brotton, Melissa, 1E Despard, Erin, preconf, 9K Gillen, Katherine, 5N Allison, Marjorie C., 6A Brown, Creighton Nicholas, 7R DeVries, Scott, preconf, 3M Gilmore, Timothy, 5H Allister, Mark, 2H, 6B Brown, Greg, 7T Deyo, Brian, 1T Girten, Kristin, 5L Almeida, Simão Farias, preconf, 5H Brox, Ali, 8L Di Battista, Amanda, preconf Girvan, Anita, 9A Alt, Christina, 9O Brozovich, Lauren, 3P Dickson, Carol, 2L Gist, John M., 3G Ammons, Elizabeth, 10E Bruen, Matthew, 4G Dieterle, Eric, 10C Glover, Angela, 7J Anderson, David, 10H Bruni, John, 1T Dimpflmeier, Fabiana, 6I Gold, Eleanor, 3O Anderson, Mark, preconf, 5Q Buchen, Callista, 9D Dindar, Gülsah, 8K Goldberg, Sylvan, 9B Anderson, Jill E., 6L Burke, Brianna R., 10E Dobrin, Sidney I., 3D Goldsmith, Jenna, 2C Anderson, Chris, preconf, 9N Burke, Daniel E., 1M Donsomsakulkij, Weeraya, 2R Goldstein, David B., 5P Ansari, Shamim Us-Saher, 8O Burkett, Maxine, Plenary 4 Dubino, Jeanne, 3S Gonzalez, Christopher T., 1C Anson, April, 4O Byl, Christine, 1F Duckert, Lowell, 7M Goodrich, Charles, 10G Armbruster, Karla M., 1P Byrne, Patrick, 10F Dunlap, Sarah, 8J Gordon, Jon, 4F Ashe, Diana, 7D Callaway, Elizabeth, preconf, 7B Durand, Marcella, 8E Gosselink, Carol A., 10H Asomugha, Chibuzo, 2R Calwell, Laura, 3E Dushane, Allison, 5L Greenbaum, Abigail C., 3F Ater, Renee, preconf Cameron, Scott Cannon, 1J Dwyer, June, 6P Gregory, Megan, 3N Athanassakis, Yanoula, 7H Caminero-Santangelo, Byron, 6N, Echterling, Clare, 1O Grieve, Sarah, 7I Audette-Longo, Patricia H., 4F 7Q Eckstein, Barbara, 3J Groeneveld, Sarah, 2D Awuah-Nyamekye, Samuel, 10E Capek, Stella, 3G Eckstein, Barbara, preconf Grossman, Lisa, 3E Badolato, Elizabeth, 7S Carrigan, Anthony, 6N, 7Q Edlich, Micha Gerrit Philipp, pre- Gruber, Elizabeth, 6M Bair, Julene, 6C Carroll, Alicia J., 2L conf, 6K Gugin, David L., 8B Baker, Brandon R., 5J Carruth, Allison, 5P Elliott, Jeremy, 10N Guignard, Jimmy, 7D Banco, Lindsey M., 7K Case, Jennifer, 7F Elliott, Will, 9J Guzman, Matthew, 8M Banks, Anna, 1L Cella, Matthew J.C., 10L Emerson, Michael, 10Q Hageman, Andy, 1A, 2H Barclay, Daniel, 1N Chamberlain, Cara, 4L English, Catherine M., 1H Hagood, Amanda, 4I Barclay, Bridgitte, 3R Chandler, Kate, 9F Ensor, Sarah, 3A Hall, Shane Donnelly, 2Q Barilla, James, 5E Chang, Yalan, preconf Epp, Kristen, 9F Hallock, Thomas, 6J Barras, Arnaud, 4O Chavez, Sarah A., 7F Eppelsheimer, Natalie, 2I Hamilton, Amy T., 3Q Bartlett, Brian, 10D Chen, Hong, 1U Erney, Hans-Georg, 2S Hamner, Everett, preconf, 2Q Bartlett, Joshua, 5N Chen, Yuehong, 8K Estok, Simon C., 7H Hampton, Jill, 2O Battista, Christine M., 4H Child, Benjamin, 4G Fairhall, Jim, 5E Hanson, Susan, 10D Bayens, Leah, 2C Chow, Juliana, 2T Fallon, Katie, 1I Harrison, Summer Gioia, 8P Beck, Russell, 8D Christensen, Nels, 10C Farmer, Gareth, 7O Hart, George, preconf, 9G Beilfuss, Michael J., 10I Christensen, Laird, 2P Farrell, Sean, 4K Harvey, Meredith, 1I Beilfuss, Kimberly, 9I Christensen, Jon, 6E Fate, Tom Montgomery, 6C Haskell, David George, 7G Bell, Matt, 9D Chu, Kiu-wai, preconf, 5I Feder, Helena, 1O Hay, Pete, 10A Belmont, Cynthia, 8C Claborn, John, preconf Ferri, Sabrina, preconf Haynes, Douglas, 5E Beltrán, Carolina, 5Q Clasen, Kelly, 10H Fielder, Brigitte Nicole, 5F Hazucha, Andrew, 9F Bennett, Joshua, 5F Clason, Christopher R., 7U Figueroa, Robert Melchior, 1S Hediger, Ryan, 7S Bennion, John, 10F Clausen, Daniel D., 10J Fine, Kerry, 1C, 3H Heise, Ursula K., 4C Benson, Adam G., 10O Cloyd, Aaron, 2C Finley, James, preconf, 5F Hellegers, Desiree, 3L Bergthaller, Hannes, 4J Cohen, Susan A., 1G Finseth, Ian, 5F Helstern, Linda, 3L Berroth, Erika, 7E Cohen, Michael C., 2T Fisher-Wirth, Ann, 5M Henrichs, Kyle, 3N Berthoud, Julie, 9Q Cohen, Jody, 4E Fiskio, Janet, 2J Heringman, Noah, 4M Bialock, David T., 9C Cohen, Jeffrey J., 7M Fitzgerald, Stephanie, preconf, 5G Hernandez, Nimachia, 1K Bilodeau, Chantal, 9J Coleman, Vera, 5B Fogerty, Hillary J., 7H Hertz, Jason, 3T Bindel, Christopher Paul, 2J Colvin, Christina, 7T Foley, Christopher, 5N Hess, Scott, preconf, 9N Binns, Donna, 6K Comfort, Susan, 9H Forns-Broggi, Roberto J., preconf, Heumann, Joseph K., 4B Bishop, Jim, 9E Conheady, Emily, 2A 3M Heyne, Eric, 7L Bladow, Kyle, 1K Conley, Erin, 8N Francois, Anne-Lise, preconf, 2T Hillard, Tom J., 3H, 2D Bloomfield, Mandy, 4L Cooper, Katie K., 7K Fredericks, John, 10I Hoffman, Steven M., 2B Boettger, Suzaan, preconf Corbett, Julia, 9E Fredericksen, Don, 8C Hogan, Linda, 8G Bogard, Paul, 2F Corey, Joshua, 2G Freedman, Diane P., 1P Holmes, Christina, 4Q Bolker, Jamie, 4G Cornes, Saskia, preconf Freitas, Vivek, 10E Hooley, Matthew, preconf, 1B Boone, Troy, 2D Coronado, Teresa, preconf, 3Q Fucile, Frank, preconf Houser, Heather, 4C Bora, Zelia M., 3M Cortez, Marisol, 4D Gaard, Greta C., 5K Huang, Hsinya, preconf, 6F Bordwin, Jesse, 8J Crawford, Chiyo, 10E Galeano, Rebecca, 9G Huang, Wang, preconf, 6P Boschman, Robert, 2Q Crimmel, Hal, 9E Galeano, Juan Carlos, Plenary 5 Hudson, Marc, 1E Boudreau, Douglas, 10O Crosby, Sara L., preconf, 10I Galloway, Kate, 3C Hueter Warner, Diane, 10D Bovaird-Abbo, Kristin, 6M Crowley, Dustin, 8L Gamber, John, 7I Huggan, Graham, 6N, 7Q Bowman-Broz, Norah, 7O Cummins, Amy, 10M Garofalo, Devin, 5L Hume, Angela, 1B Braddock, Alan, preconf Dalke, Anne, 4E Gatlin, Jill, 2K Hunt, Richard, 6B

Index of Presenters

Husband, Andrew, 2O, 3H Leong, Diana, 2Q Moeckel, Thorpe, 5M Poudel, Arjun P., 4P Hutchinson, Elizabeth, preconf Lerberg, Matthew, 3T Molander Danielsson, Karin E., 3I Powers, M. Karen, 4R Hutter, Liz, 3J Lerberg, Justin, 3T Monani, Salma, 2E Prádanos, Luis I., 7C Ingram, Annie Merrill, preconf, 6J Lettero, Carly, 10G Mondello, Kaitlin, 8H Price, John T., 6C Iovino, Serenella, preconf, 5K Lewis, Corey, 2F Moore, David L., 3L Pughe, Tom, 8K Irmscher, Christoph, preconf Linscott, Melinda, 3T Morel, Eric, 1L Pullen, Matt, 5J Ito, Koichiro, 5Q Lioi, Anthony, preconf, 2Q Morey, Sean, 3D Queiroz, Ana Isabel, 6O Iwamasa, Shinji, 8N Lipscomb, Susan Bruxvoort, 10J Morrell, John J., 7E Quetchenbach, Bernard, 2P Jackson, Shannon, 1Q Lipscomb, Robert, 3T Muchiri, Ng’ang’a wa, 10P Racevskis, Roland, 8H Jackson, Wes, Plenary 7 Liu, Bei, 5I Murphy, Yvonne C., 4S Rademaekers, Justin King, 8I Jacobson, Kristin J., 2M Liu, Xinmin D., preconf, 5I Murray, Robin L., 4B Rashidian, Ziba, 3S Jacoby, Lindsay Dunne, preconf, 4I Lobnik, Mirja, 1E Myers, Garth, 1Q Rauscher, Judith, preconf, 4H James, Erin, 1L Lombardi, William V., 2S Myers, Robert M., 2K Ray, Sarah Jaquette, 4I6G James, Jennifer C., 5F Long, Aaron, 10K Myers, Jeffrey, 7I Reis, Ashley E., 9M Jansson, Magnus, 3I Long, Mark, 2P, 6Q, 7A Myslivy, Rachel, 4R Reno, Seth, 2A Jenkins, McKay, 9A Lousley, Cheryl, preconf, 3B Nagy, Kelsi, 7T Richardson, Barbara K., 6D Johnson, Rochelle, preconf, 1P Low, Matthew M., 3P Nardizzi, Vin, 7M Rippey, John, 6H Johnson, Margaret, 2C Lowe, Annie, 2S Nchoujie, Augustine, 10P Roberts, Suzanne, 5D Johnson, Alan G., 5O Lukas, Michael, 6O Neely, Evan, 4T Robertson, Chris, 5D Johnson, Stephen R., 7B Lumpkin, Cody, 7F Neely, Michelle C., 9Q Roorda, Randall, 2C Johnson, II, Phillip David, 1I Lundblad, Michael, 9A Nelson, Michaelann, 7P Rose, Andrew M., 5A Johns-Putra, Adeline, 4J Lynch, Tom, 6I Newman, Lance, preconf, 5F Ross, Andrew B., 4K Johnston, Jasmine, 7L Lyndgaard, Kyhl, 10M Niemann, Michelle, 1M Rossi, William, 4N Joiner, Jennie J., 7J Mabie, Josh, 9L Nisbet, James, preconf Rothermel, Dennis, 7K Jones, Brandon, 6M MacDuffie, Allen, 7C Nixon, Rob, Plenary 1, 6N, 7Q Rowland, Susan, 2D Joosten, Julie, preconf, 3A Madsen, Kimberly, 5O Nolan, Sarah, 7O Roy, Modhumita, 10E Joy, Eileen, 7M Magrane, Eric, 10G Noland, Daniel W., 10J Roy, Bonnie, 8E Juhasz, Antonia, Plenary 2 Maher, Susan N., 3H, 6I Nuñez, Gabriela, preconf Rubalcava, Rolando, 4A Kainulainen, Maggie, 1N Maier, Kevin, 9J Ober, Bethany, 8O Rusert, Britt, 5F Kaisinger, Yvonne, preconf, 8P Mains, Daniel, 1Q Obernesser, Scott, 7N Russell, Eric, 4M Kalaidjian, Andrew, 8J Major, William, 4T O'Brien, Susie, 6N, 7Q Russell, Patrick, 7C Kaminski, Megan, 8E Mannon, Ethan, 5C Ocampo, Christina, 8F Russo, Linda, 8E Kang, Yeonhaun, preconf, 2L Marcone, Jorge, preconf, 6N, 7Q Öhman, Marie, 3I Rust, Stephen, 4B Kapoor, Maya L., preconf, 4K Marrero Henríquez, José Olson, Leslie, 1S Ryan, Terre, 4F Kaur, Gurpreet, 9H Manuel, 9B Oman, Patricia, 8G Ryden, Kent, 2O Kayano, Yoshiko, 7R Marshall, Ian, 6B Oppermann, Serpil, preconf, 5K Sabatelli, Christiaan, 6L Keller, Lynn, 1B Martens, Susan, 1H Osborn, Katherine, 10N Salt, Karen, 6F Keller, Christopher, 4Q Martin, Daniel J., 8A Osborne, Gillian, preconf, 2T Sandgren, Håkan, 4R Keller, Anne, 8B Martinez, Ann, 6M Oscarson, Christopher (Chip), 8C Sandilands, Cate, preconf, 6E Kerber, Jenny, 9O Masek, Paris, 1K Ottum, Lisa, 2A Santana, Elana, preconf Kerridge, Richard, 3G Matejka, Adrian, 2G Outka, Paul, 6E Saulitis, Eva, 1F Kharpertian, Kiara L., 9P Mazzolini, Elizabeth, 2M Packalén, Sture, 3I Schaberg, Christopher, 1A, 2H Killingsworth, M. Jimmie, 7D McAdam, Rhona, 8O Pangborn, James M., 8I Schaumberg, Edward, 9P Kim, Won-Chung, 9C McAlear, Rob, 7U Pangborn, Matthew H., 9L Scheffer, Erin Elizabeth, 3C King, Robert Drury, 4P McCutchan, Ann, 6D Paparone, Rachel, 4I Schneider-Mayerson, Matthew, 2B Kirkpatrick, Kathryn, preconf, 7T McFarland, Sarah E., 7J Parker, Taylor, 9G Schuchhardt, Caitlyn, 7R Kjeldaas, Sigfrid, preconf, 7L McHolm, Taylor, 9P Patrick, Darren, preconf Schultz, Elizabeth (Beth), 3E Klassen, Chris, 10L McInnes, Marnie, 3J Patterson, Daniel, 4M Sciolino, Martina, 3L Kneitz, Agnes, 4J McKelvey, Kevin, 10N Payne, Tonia L., 3B Scott, Heidi, 2B Knickerbocker, Scott, 10F McMurry, Andrew, 4T Peng, Chandrea, 4E Sen, Malcolm, 6N, 7Q Knoeller, Christian, 7P Meeks, Catherine, 3F Perreten, Peter F., 9B Sexton, Melissa S., 9M Knopp, Lisa, 8D Mehl, Heidi, 3E Philippon, Dan, 5P Seymour, Nicole, 7E Konkle, Maureen, 5G Mehnert, Antonia, preconf, 5A Phillips, Rebecca, 2Q Shaman, Cory, 9Q Konkol, Margaret, preconf, 6L Meiners, Katie, 5J Phillips, Anna Lena, 3F Shaw, Paul, 10P Kowalik, Ania, 10O Meisenbacher, Evelyn, 8F Phillips, Lisa L., 3N Shea, Maureen E., 10A Kramer, Ashley C., 8N Melder, Mark O., 7J Phillips, Michael A., 3N Shewry, Teresa, 10A Kuechler, Uwe, 2I Melin, Charlotte, 2I Phillips, Dana, 4J, 9M Sibara, Jennifer Barager, 2E Kumbet, Pelin, 6K Mellin, Robert B., 1T Pilgrim, Karyn, 4S Siperstein, Stephen, preconf, 2Q Kupinse, William, 7G Mendell, Dean, 10M Pinard, Mary, 1N Sivils, Matthew Wynn, 3Q Lacey, Jeff, 1H Meneses, Juan, 8L Plastrik, David, 10N Skattebo, Steven, 1M Ladino, Jennifer, 4L Menning, Nancy, preconf, 9C Platt, Kamala J., 4D Skinner, Jonathan, 5M LaFauci, Lauren E., 6J Menting, Michelle, 7F Platt, Daniel, 6G Slaymaker, William, 9J Lane, John, 2N Mentz, Steve, 7M Plevin, Arlene, 3K Slovic, Scott, 1R, 3M Lanham, J. Drew, 10E Merksamer, Frank, 10K Plum, Sydney Landon, preconf Smart, Annie K., 10J Lapeyrouse-Cherry, Juliette, 4C Merola, Nicole M., preconf, 7B Pokhrel, Arun Kumar, 4P Smith, Brady, 1R Larochelle, Jeremy G., preconf, 3M Meyer, Kate, preconf Porter, Anne E., 10Q Smyth, Andrew J., 3S Latosi-Sawin, Elizabeth, 8B Mickelson, Nathan, 2K Porter, Rob, 5C Soles, Carter, 4B Lawrence, Christopher R., 7H Miller, John MacNeill, 8M Porter, Brenda, 5C Song, Lili, 5I LeBourdais, George, preconf Mills, Tyler, 2G Posthumus, Stephanie, 4H Soppelsa, Peter, 1Q LeMenager, Stephanie, 6E Mitchem, Sarah Lewis, 4O Potts, Donna L., 7S Specq, Francois, 4N

Spoth, Daniel, 4I Weaver, James, 9L Springer, Emilie, 9J Weiger, Sarah, preconf, 3A Squire, Louise, 4A Weik von Mossner, Alexa, 2E St. Germain, Sheryl, 5M Weinstein, Josh A., 5C Staples, Heidi, 9I Welch, Tana Jean, 3P Stark, Mary V., 7B Wells, Justine, 7S Steinwand, Jonathan, 9G Weltzien, O. Alan, 6I Stentiford, David, preconf, 10B Wenzel, Jennifer, 6E Stephens, Caroline M., 10C Werkheiser, Ian, 9I Stephens, Liz, 8D Werner, Brett, preconf Stobb, William, 2G Westerman, Jennifer Hughes, 5D Stone, Joan, 3E Wheat, Jennifer, 1J Storey, Gail D., 6D White, Laura A., 7U Strachan, Jeremy, 3C Whyte, Kyle Powys, 2J Straight, Nathan, 10F Wildcat, Daniel, Plenary 6 Straß, Hanna, 3K Williams, Julie, 10L Straughn, Celka, preconf Williams, Joshua, 2R Street, Laura-Gray, 5M Williams, Nathaniel, 3R Streit Krug, Aubrey, preconf, 1H Willmott, Glenn, 1L Strickler, Breyan, 2M Wilson, Mac J., 3M Stroup, William J., preconf, 2A Withers, Jeremy, 1O Stubbs, Glenn, 8A Witschi, Nicolas S., 1C Stuckey, Priscilla, 6D Wohlpart, Jim, 2N Stuhmiller, Jacqueline A., 6P Wohlpart, Sasha, 2N Sturges, Mark, 2O Wolfe, Cary, Plenary 3 Sullivan, Heather I., 2H, 5K Wood, Adam, 8F Sumner, David T., 7P Woods, Derek J., 9K Swan, Heather, 1U Woodson, Mary Beth, 10B Sweet, Rick, 9O Woolbright, Lauren, 3D Tallmadge, John, 2P, 6Q, 7A Worster, Donald, Plenary 7 Tatonetti, Lisa, 5G Wright, Laura, 4A Taylor, Jesse Oak, 3O Wu, Chengyi Coral, 1R Taylor, Rebekah A., 8J Yates, Michelle, 1D Taylor, David, preconf, 2N Yazgünoglu, Kerim Can, preconf, 10I Terrill, Ceiridwen, 2F Ybarra, Priscilla Solis, preconf, 4Q Thomas, Anne, 8F Yero, Lauren, 5A Thomson, Shawn, 9N Yilmaz, Hakan, 1D Thomson, Jeffrey, Plenary 5 Yilmaz, Zümre Gizem, preconf, 9B Thornber, Karen, 1J Yuki, Masami, 6H Thorpe, Doug, 7N Zantingh, Matthew, 9K Thorpe, Katherine, 7N Zona, Kirstin Hotelling, 2G Tidwell, Christy, 3R Zucker, Elyse, 9F Tiengo, Adele, 3B Zuelke, Karl, 8A Tomlinson, Susan, preconf Toth, Bill D., 6A Toyosato, Mayumi, 6H Troelstrup, Holms, 2G Trumpeter, Kevin, 7U Tucker, Terry A., 8G Tulloch, Elspeth, 9J Turner, Kyndra, 6F Valente, Anne, 9D Valero, Ignacio, preconf Van Noy, Rick, 1G Van Tassel, Kristin, 3E Van Zanten, Clara, 1A Varner, Matthew, 10B Varsava, Nina, 8N Vázquez, David J., 6G Vetterling, Mary-Anne, preconf Vinyeta, Kirsten, 2J Vogt, Benjamin, 8G Voie, Christian Hummelsund, preconf, 3O Vold, Veronica, 3K Wagner-Lawlor, Jennifer A., 5B Wagstaff, Stillman, 10L Wald, Sarah, 6G Wallace, Molly, 6A Walls, Laura Dassow, 4N Warren, Suzanne, 7G Warren, Jim, preconf, 2P Weatherford, Jessica, 4D 45

Map of portions of KU campus where ASLE events are held:

Adams Alumni Center (AAC) Spencer Museum of Art (SMA) Anschutz Library (ANSL) Spooner Hall—The Commons (SP) Corbin Residence Hall (COR) Watson Library (WATS) Fraser Hall (FR) Wescoe Hall (WES) Gertrude Sellards Pearson Residence Hall (GSP) Parking: All resident hall lots are free (this does not include Kansas Memorial Union (U), which contains: metered spaces), including lots 100-105, 107, 109, 110, 111, Alcove G, Alderson, Ballroom, Big 12 Room, Centennial 112, 114, 121, 124 and 128. Room, English Room, Jayhawk Room, Kansas Room, Malott Pay-as-you-go parking is also available in a covered lot Room, The Market, Pine Room, Woodruff adjacent to the KU Union. Do NOT park in other lots on KK Amini Scholarship Hall (KKAH) campus; you will be ticketed. Margaret Amini Scholarship Hall (MAH) Full campus map: http://maps.dept.ku.edu/assets/pdf/ Sabatini Multicultural Resource Center (SMRC) campus_map-color.pdf Smith Hall (SMI)